Patterns of Dissonance

This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the relation between women and philosophy. It offers a critical account of a wide range of contemporary philosophical and feminist texts and it develops this account into an original project of critical feminist thought.

Auteur
Rosi Braidotti works in the fields of contemporary philosophy and literature. She has published work on feminist theory in Italian, French and English and has been translated into many other languages. She is Professor of Womens Studies at the University of Utrecht.

Contenu

1. Images of the Void.
2. Desidero Ergo Sum:.

The Improbable Tete-&aacute-tete Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

3. Un-Cartesian Routes: Foucault and Derrida.

4. Bodies, Texts and Powers.

5. The Becoming-Woman of Philosophy.

6. Towards a Philosophical Reading of Feminist Ideas.

7. Feminist Tactics in Philosophy, or:.

I Think Therefore He is.

8. Radical Philosophies of Sexual Difference, or:.

I Think Therefore She is.

Conclusion.