The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson
Rebecca Hill
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Description for The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson
Hardback. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 409.
The Interval offers the first sustained analysis of the concept grounding Irigaray’s thought: the constitutive yet incalculable interval of sexual difference. In an extension of Irigaray’s project, Hill takes up her formulation of the interval as a way of rereading Aristotle’s concept of topos and Bergson’s concept of duration.
Hill diagnoses a sexed hierarchy at the heart of Aristotle’s and Bergson’s presentations. Yet beyond that phallocentrism, she points out how Aristotle’s theory of topos as a sensible relation between two bodies that differ in being and Bergson’s intuition of duration as an incalculable threshold of becoming are indispensable to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823237241
SKU
V9780823237241
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About Rebecca Hill
Rebecca Hill is Lecturer in Communication in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Reviews for The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson
"The interval is a force of dispersal or difference that is constitutive of identity: it is the necessity of relations between terms. Rebecca Hill has provided a powerful original analysis of the interval in thinking sexual difference and its implications for our thinking about space, time and identity."
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