ISBN: 9780791434604

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… More...

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." Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism Price, Daniel, State University of New York Press<

ISBN: 0791434605

A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage. feminist theory,history and theory,moder… More...

A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage. feminist theory,history and theory,modern,parenting and relationships,philosophy,political science,politics and government,politics and social sciences,social sciences,women's studies Women's Studies, State University of New York Press<

ISBN: 9780791434604

State University of New York Press. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside., State University of New York Press

1997, ISBN: 9780791434604

State University of New York Press, 1997-08-28. Paperback. Good., State University of New York Press, 1997-08-28