From: ccaruso-AT-sas.upenn.edu (Christopher G Caruso)
Subject: Re: Chanter bib
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 16:27:53 -0400 (EDT)



HAAS wrote:
> 
> 
> "The very word 'erotic' coems from the Greek word eros, the personification of
> love in all its aspects--born of Chaos--and personifying creative power and
> harmony.  When I speak of the erotic,t hen, I speak of it as an assertion of
> the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and
> use of which we arenow reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing,
> our loving, our work, our lives."  --Audre Lorde
> 
> The book I was talking about in my last post is:
> 
> Chanter, Tina.  *Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers.* 
> NY: Routledge, 1995.
> 
> The chapters are:
> 
> 1. Tracking Essentialism with the help of a Sex/gender Map
> 2. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir
> 3. Looking at Hegel's Antigone through Irigaray's Speculum
> 4. Irigaray, Heidegger, and the Greeks
> 5. Levinas and the Question of the Other
> 6. Derrida, Irigaray, and Feminism
> 7. Afterward: Irigaray, Freud, Lacan
> 
> 
> How's it sound?
> 
> Lynda


I'm very interested in reading this book along with the readers of the 
list.  What a great idea.

Chris Caruso
ccaruso-AT-sas.upenn.edu
Philadelphia, PA  USA


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