On the Feminine

This collection of texts dealing with "the feminine"—not with "feminism" or with "woman," which are simply two different methods of reductionism—aims to escape from biased doctrines and voluntarist discourses in order to weigh what is at stake in that which marks itself as a quality of the feminine. In a renewal of this sort, thought had to be put to the test and had to listen to different approaches so that a criticism of the language of signs and of institutions could be elaborated. This book is therefore organized according to the intersection of several disciplines: The points of view, as well as the blind spost, of philosophy, literature, poetry, linguistics, and literary criticism are presented, putting their differentials to work. In linking philosophical reflections with literary creation, these texts question our cultural representations and attempt to trace the political and ethical paths toward another relationship with knowledge and the world.