Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface by Kate Kirkpatrick Introduction by Pamela Sue Anderson 1. ‘On Feminist Discourse’, Tetsuji Yamamoto in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 2. ‘On The Second Sex’, Catherine Rodgers in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 3. ‘On Style and Experience’, Ulrika Bjork in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 4. ‘On a Twentieth-century French Woman Philosopher’, Penelope Deutscher in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 5. ‘Bringing us into Twenty-First Century Feminism with Joy and Wit’, Pamela Sue Anderson and Meena Dhanda with Michèle Le Doeuff 6. Women in dialogue and in solitude 7. ‘A Bonny Dialogue – for French Studies’, Elizabeth Fallaize in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 8. ‘A Jolly Panel Discussion in Nottingham’, Pamela Sue Anderson, Suzanne Dow, Alison Martin and Mark Robson in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 9. ‘On the Sex of Philosophy’, Aliocha Wald Lasowski in dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff 10. ‘Highly Singular Memories of ‘68, etc.’, Michèle Le Doeuff ‘in dialogue’ with her past 11. ‘Occasionally the Unforeseen Happens’ by Michèle Le Doeuff 12. ‘In Joyful Dialogue with Spinoza and Others: Le Doeuff, Deleuze and the Ethics’ by Pamela Sue Anderson 13. ‘Towards A New Philosophical Imaginary’ by Michèle Le Doeuff

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Compelling diialogues with one of the most creative female thinkers of the 20th century, Michèle Le Dœuff, exploring feminism, friendship, philosophies of love and the problems of existence.

About the Author

Michèle Le Dœuff is a French feminist philosopher who is best known for the seminal work, The Philosophical Imaginary (1990), as well as Hipparchia’s Choice (2006), and The Sex of Knowing (2003). Pamela Sue Anderson was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. She specialised in philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy and continental thought.

Reviews

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff sparkles on the future possibilities of feminist philosophy. Le Doeuff’s style is delightful: witty, erudite and deflating of all pomposity. This is philosophical conversation at its most historically imaginative, political, and inclusive. A triumph of feminist thought as intellectual friendship’s equality.
*Lorna Hutson, FBA, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK*

This fascinating collection gives a rare insight into how the philosophical work of various marginalized groups has been both autonomous yet responsive to the work of others. There is a vast amount to learn here, not just about how to philosophize at the margins, but about how to philosophize.
*A.W. Moore, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK*