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Interval, Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Henri Bergson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Rebecca Hill
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Abstract

Henri Bergson's philosophy has attracted increasing feminist attention in recent years as a fruitful locus for re-theorizing temporality. Drawing on Luce Irigaray's well-known critical description of metaphysics as phallocentrism, Hill argues that Bergson's deduction of duration is predicated upon the disavowal of a sexed hierarchy. She concludes the article by proposing a way to move beyond Bergson's phallocentrism to articulate duration as a sensible and transcendental difference that articulates a nonhierarchical qualitative relation between the sexes.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 119 - 131
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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