Adam’s Rib: Sexual Differences from Levinas

Authors

  • Carla Rodrigues Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2011000200004

Abstract

This paper presents the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas about women and about sex differences to explore what Jacques Derrida calls the two possibilities of reading Lévinas. The first, androcentric, identifies the traditional hierarchical separation between male and female. The
second possibility of reading Lévinas, according to Derrida, sees the expansion of the meaning of women into the feminine, amplifying Levinas’s propositions of feminity as an opening to otherness. Lévinas turns the feminine into a privileged figure of ethics and otherness. Derrida will depart from this idea of Lévinas about the feminine to think of unconditional hospitality, radicalizing his view of openness to others.

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Author Biography

Carla Rodrigues, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em Filosofia (PUC-Rio), é professora
agregada do Departamento de Comunicação Social da PUC-Rio. É vice-coordenadora do Laboratório Khôra de Filosofias da Alteridade (UFRJ) e pesquisadora do Núcleo de Estudos sobre Ética e Desconstrução (PUC-Rio). É autora, entre outros trabalhos, do livro Coreografias do feminino (Editora Mulheres, 2009).

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Published

2011-01-01

How to Cite

Rodrigues, C. (2011). Adam’s Rib: Sexual Differences from Levinas. Revista Estudos Feministas, 19(2), 371. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2011000200004

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2011)

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