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Article: Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva Heidegger, Irigaray.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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Patricia J. Huntington. Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xxxi + 383 pp. $24.95.
CAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM in its feminist representations provide us with the utopian hope needed to improve society for women and oppressed minorities? On the surface it would seem unlikely, assailed by skepticism from both within and without as poststructuralism is. Patricia J. Huntington, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago, is nevertheless reluctant to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Therefore she sets out to sort through a number of theories in ...