Without a woman to read : toward the daughter in postmodernism
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Without a woman to read : toward the daughter in postmodernism
（SUNY series in radical social and political theory）
State University of New York Press, c1997
- : hc
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-359) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Without a Woman to Read enacts a new metaphorical thinking of political and social space around the questions of silence and voice, reading and writing, maternity and paternity, faithless daughters and transcendent sons. Price's interrogations of the tradition find a new space between primary and secondary sources, orchestrating the conjunction and disjunction of political, social, and aesthetic themes within postmodernism. In that sense, the book belongs to several discourses—postmodern philosophy, political theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary theory—at the same time that it transcends any particular discourse.
An essay in the reconfigurative and transformative possibilities of metaphor, the book not only enacts a deconstruction, and possible reconstruction, of the metaphorical space of woman but also turns in toward the political questions of creating a world that we could live in through responding to, and working toward, its constantly transforming metaphors. At the heart of the project lies a reevaluation of Levinas's ethical ontology as a response to the traditional metaphysics of structured exchange—of the giving and withdrawing of God in Christ, or of linguistic signs in the place of real presence—through a reconfiguration of the metaphorical play of sisters, mothers, and daughters.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments Introduction—Regarding Silence Iphigenia and Other Elisions A Woman's Death The death of the literal, the death of a woman A) Daughters—part 1 B) Sisters—part 1 i) Antigone is not tragic
- she works without producing ii) Death of, exactly, a sister. Christ and Word, the Son of the Eternal Christ as the failure of extension (speaking without determination) Writing Christ, saying Christ B) Sisters—part 2 i) Sisters as token of exchange a) An excess of meaning
- desire exceeds (is the form of) economy b) On Speaking—Who is it who gives the gift? c) Politics inside (and outside) the Economies (and Aesthetics) of Self and Other ii) Consider the sister, Dorothy Wordsworth a) Irony/Clothing/Seduction b) Obligation or event iii) The paradigmatic sister, Antigone C) Mothers i) Structuring time: from indefinite to definite ii) Flesh to the order of God A) Daughters—part 2 i) Daughters in time ii) Politics Bibliography Index
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