Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the
Ethics of Eros sheds light on contemporary feminist discourse by questioning the basic distinctions and categories in feminist theory. Tina Chanter uses the work of Luce Irigaray as the focus for a cr
The Heideggerian conception of temporality emphasizes the importance of death as the orientation point for one's understanding of time, while Levinas is more concerned with one's experience of the pre
One of Chanter's (philosophy, DePaul U.) goals here, she says, is to reread Sophocles' Oedipal cycle, challenging some of the fundamental tenets that have come to specify its founding role in literatu
Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy provides clear and comprehensive exposition and analysis of the main philosophical theories, ideas and arguments that inform, and are raised by, questions of gender
Even those who take themselves to be breaking from tradition-from the metaphysical tradition of philosophy, from grand narratives, neoliberalism or Eurocentrism-can remain blindly attached to them. Ar
This volume of essays, all but one previously unpublished, investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas has become known as the philosopher of the Other -- famously
