Interval, Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and Henri Bergson

✍ Scribed by REBECCA HILL

• Book ID: 109105128
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 758 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-5367
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01168.x

✦ Synopsis

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.