Logika tego samego, czyli o zasadzie to(z)samości – od Luce Irigaray do Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

• Authors: Marzec Andrzej

Title variants

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THE LOGIC OF THE SAME: ON THE RULE OF SAMENESS FROM LUCE IRIGARAY TO EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This article focuses on the mechanisms of the formation of homogeneous and hegemonic social structures based on predominance of one sex, exclusion of difference, and otherness. Reflecting on Luce Irigaray's thought, the author describes hom(m)o-sexual society with the use of the concepts of sameness and specula(risa)tion. He also shows how the exchange of women plays a constitutive role in creating an illusion of change and movement, and how it enables male-male relations in the homogeneous, identical male community. The author develops this approach by referring to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's concept of homosocial desire. In the phallic economy, men desire women only indirectly, and the latter serve as vehicles between men. In such a society a woman is located outside the symbolic order, or becomes an object of exchange, a currency or commodity. She is a mirror (speculum) which enables the male subject to look at himself and his desires, having no reflection or representation of herself. Therefore, following Irigaray, the author attempts to show the possibility of a different subjectivity from the one built on the rule of sameness. The French philosopher finds the cause of the lack of difference in the symbolic murder of the mother, which was committed in the history of European philosophy and which laid foundations for logocentrism.

Keywords

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DIFFERENCE; SAMENESS; SEX; DESIRE; SUBJECTIVITY; HOMOGENOUS SOCIET; EXCHANGE OF WOMEN

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 107-132

Contributors

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Marzec Andrzej

• Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, ul. Szamarzewskiego 90, 60-569 Poznań, Poland