Ebook: Patterns of Dissonance: a Study of Women and Contemporary Philosophy

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 Images of the Void; Diagnosing the Crisis; The Feminine at Stake; The Female Feminist; 2 Desidero Ergo Sum: The Improbable Tête-à-Tête between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; 'Mit Affekt': The Psychoanalytic Critique of What It Means to Think; On the Borderlines of the Political: The Discursive Marketing of the Feminine; Philosophy and its Doubles; 3 Un-Cartesian Routes; Foucault and Derrida: Reason and its Others; Deleuze; 4 Bodies, Texts and Powers; Sexuality; Foucault and the Other.;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. Braidotti examines contemporary French philosophy as practised by men such as Foucault and Derrida, showing that they rely on a notion of 'the feminine' in order to undermine classical thought, which bears no direct relevance to the historical experience of women. Braidotti then looks.