Online webinars are ramping up, providing opportunities to explore new themes including Dr Laura Roberts’ Continental Philosophy lecture next week on Luce Irigaray’s ideas on equality and the notion of sexuate rights (recognition of gender differences).

In this seminar Dr Roberts will argue it is important to read Luce Irigaray’s philosophy not as a marginal analysis, but rather as a political-philosophical project with important contributions to broader discussions in contemporary political
philosophy.

She will explore a difficult and often overlooked aspect of Luce Irigaray’s philosophy – the critique of equality and the notion of sexuate rights.

Dr Roberts says reading Irigaray’s work alongside another view (Irene Watson’s) that certain feminist struggles collude with the colonial project, “demonstrates the value of an Irigarayan philosophy of sexuate difference that offers a critique of the patriarchal subject foundational to colonialism as well as to western democracy.”

Luce Irigaray: Equality, Sexuate Rights and Colonialism

Where: Online webinar via Teams

When: 3:30pm, Monday 25 May 2020

Register: Contact chass.operations@flinders.edu.au for link