This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories – from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to Deleuze, Irigaray, Butler and Oliver Sachs – this book challenges the assumption that metaphysics can remain unchanged by issues of sexual difference.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Fleshy Metaphysics.
2. Essentialisms, Feminisms and Metaphysics.
3. Her Body/Her Boundaries.
4. Kantian Metaphysics and the Sexed Self.
5. Feminist Postmodernism and the Metaphysics of Absence.
6. Antigones of Gender.
7. Flesh with Trimmings: Adorno and Difference.
8. Kierkegaard, Woman and the Workshop of Possibilities.
9. Scoring the Subject of Feminist Theory: Kierkegaard and Deleuze.
10. Coda.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index .
About the author
Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita in Philosophy and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick. She is the author of
Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics.
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