Without a Woman to Read

Daniel Price teaches in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University.

"Written in the interrogative mode, this work is a questioning of reading and writing that goes far beyond the usual postmodern revisioning of these themes. Instead it attempts to adumbrate these problems by an analysis of the she who speaks the plight of postmodernity. Using the work of feminist thinkers such as Margaret Homans, Luce Irigaray, and Judith Butler, Price analyzes mother, sister, and daughter as conceptual personae. Levinas's ethical critique of philosophy provides an additional focus for understanding freedom as prior to choice as actualized in rule-bound decision making. Combining unbridled exuberance and vivid imagination with exemplary scholarship, Price has written a work that moves toward a new understanding of the interplay of traditional philosophy and its other." — Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University

• Acknowledgments Introduction—Regarding Silence Iphigenia and Other Elisions A Woman's Death The death of the literal, the death of a womanA)  Daughters—part 1 B)  Sisters—part 1 i) Antigone is not tragic;she works without producingii) Death of, exactly, a sister.Christ and Word, the Son of the Eternal Christ as the failure of extension (speaking without determination) Writing Christ, saying Christ B) Sisters—part 2 i) Sisters as token of exchangea) An excess of meaning; desire exceeds (is the form of) economyb) On Speaking—Who is it who gives the gift?c) Politics inside (and outside) the Economies (and Aesthetics) of Self and Otherii) Consider the sister, Dorothy Wordswortha) Irony/Clothing/Seductionb) Obligation or eventiii) The paradigmatic sister, AntigoneC) Mothers i) Structuring time: from indefinite to definiteii) Flesh to the order of GodA) Daughters—part 2 i) Daughters in timeii) PoliticsBibliography Index