Abstract

BUTLER, Judith. Sexual difference as a question of ethics: alterities of the flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty. Educ. Form. [online]. 2021, vol.6, n.2, e5204.  Epub Apr 26, 2021. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v6i2.5204.

The present article is a cross between the approach of the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray, making reference mainly to her work An ethics of sexual difference, and the perspective of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, highlighting especially the chapter “The interwining - The chiasm”, from his posthumous work The visible and the invisible. Irigaray has a kind of ambivalent relationship in the way she places herself in front of the texts of male philosophers. Incorporating the philosophical tradition into his own text, Irigaray engages with Merleau-Ponty by an “interwining”, characteristic of the relations of Merleau-Ponty´s theory of the flesh. It is worth noting that this article is unified by the purpose of elaborating what Irigaray calls the ethical relation between the sexes. For her, such a relation consists of the question “Who are you?” The vast debate involving ethics, sexual difference, and otherness of the flesh is woven under the analysis of the two great philosophers.

Keywords : Sexual difference; Ethics; Alterity; Flesh; Interwining.

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