From Goddess Spirituality to Irigaray's Angel
The Politics of the Divine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3947188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penelope Ingram (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-72 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/014177800440239 |
| OpenAlex | W2025835779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article argues that the act of conceptualizing a female divine, whether by so-called low-brow Goddess Spiritualists or high-brow French philosophers, rather than being a mere spiritual exercise, has enormous political significance for feminisms. In particular, I demonstrate that Irigaray's concept of the sensible transcendental, by refiguring a god which is both male and female, transcendent and immanent, theorizes a potential dissolution of the binary logic which forms the basis of western philosophy. The second half of the article looks at the complex role of the angel in Irigaray's theory of the divine in order to demonstrate that, as a result of having misinterpreted the angel's position, critics have failed to recognize the significance and relevance of Irigaray's sensible transcendental for feminist politics
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feminism · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Spirituality · Transcendental number · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2017 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |