Driftwork

I can’t help but feel that there is something wrong with being a young academic philosophy who only seems to refer to masculine philosophers. What is making me think of this again is the re-reading of Deleuzes book on Nietzsche and the way it reminds me of Sarah Kofman’s work on related areas. Paul L. used to ask whether it was possible to wrok on contemporary philosophy without having read the work that begins with De Beauvoir, but really you could go back further Edith Stein amongst others. There is something here that needs further thinking about - but first a confession.

I have two fixed and determined lines of thought and interest, continental philosophy with a strong interest in difference and philosophies of science and technology - out of this emerges the political and immanance - but still non of it makes any sense at all if read through the traditional lines of male philosophers.

Given that I don’t want to fall into the nach drach tory trap that Lyotard fell into in the Two or Three Things I Know About… essay I should at least reference Kristeva, Irigaray, Kofman, Cartwright… simply to avoid the trap. But still what and how to handle this …?