Living Politically

An Irigarayan Notion of Agency as a Way of Life

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ID12147013
AuthorsMiri Rozmarin (0000-0002-2110-9182, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume28
Issue3
Pages469-482
Publication date2011-12-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01258.x
OpenAlexW2017829315
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

This paper formulates Luce Irigaray's notion of agency as a political way of life. I argue that agency, within an Irigarayan framework, is both the outcome and the condition of a political life, aimed at creating political transformations. As Irigaray hardly addresses the topic of agency per se, I suggest understanding Irigaray's textual style as implying specific “technologies of self” in the Foucauldian sense, that is, as self‐applied social practices that reshape social reality, one's relations to oneself, and enhance one's freedom and pleasures in these relations. This interpretation aims to extract concrete transformative practices, which, by shaping one's sense of self in relation to others, create oneself as a free and active subject

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Self · Sense of agency · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Subject (documents · Transformative learning · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Criticism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology

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