Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond Beauvoir as Irigaray's Other

Part I. Rereading Beauvoir
1. Material Life: Bergsonian tendencies in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy Alia Al-Saji
2. Dead Camp: Beauvoir on the Life and Death of Femininity (Reading The Second Sex with Butler, Brown, and Wilson) Penelope Deutscher
3. Toward a "New and Possible Meeting": Ambiguity as Difference Emily Anne Parker
4. We Have Always Been Materialists: Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Specter of Materialism Anne van Leeuwen

Part II. Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray
5. Ambiguity and Difference: Two Feminist Ethics of the Present Sara Heinämaa
6. Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Ambiguity of Desire Gail Weiss
7. The Question of the Subject and the Matter of Violence Debra Bergoffen
8. Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Philosophy Dorothea E. Olkowski

About the Author

Anne van Leeuwen's research is in 20th C. structuralism and post-structuralism, critical theory, and art and literature at James Madison University.

Emily Anne Parker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Towson University. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray and is the editor of a special issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology entitled Luce Irigaray: From Ecology to Elemental Difference.

Reviews

"... this collection has many strengths that render it an important and timely book in the fields of feminist philosophy and French philosophy ... the taste of the Differences leaves the reader thinking of the next meal, wondering where these exciting new flavors will lead." --Jennifer McWeeny, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews