You're listening to the Parson Examined Life, a podcast by Sam Kyes, who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 375 is, what impact, if any, should sexual difference have on philosophy and society?

We read several selections published between 1977 and 1993 by Luce Irriguerai,

as presented in Chapter 7 of the year 2000 edition of the Roman and Littlefield French feminism reader,

edited by Kelly Oliver, with an introduction written by today's guests.

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For more information about the text in the podcast, please see partially examined life.com.

This is Mark Linson-Myer, reducing the rising tide of abstraction through concrete,

sacrificial goals in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, struggling to find pleasure in the phallic economy in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey engaging in the economy of desire in Madison, Wisconsin. And our special guests. This is Jenny Hansen trying to find

some space for a voice in the fallow logo-centric economy. Well, I'm glad that I could cue you

when to talk. I'll make sure to tell you every

second of this discussion when you're allowed to talk. When, and they'll cut your mic. We don't do

that. Thanks for coming back, Jenny. West was going to take a vacation. I wanted to pick something

that he didn't care that much about. So he doesn't, it's not like he flees when he hears about this kind of topic. It's just that now when he is going to be fleeing anyway, we pick this kind of topic. And we're always happy to have you back. Folks would remember Jenny from what we were on one of the abortion discussions and you are on one of the bouvoir discussions and you're on philosophy versus improv twice. And Butler. Oh, Judith Butler. That's right. Yeah. Yes. So we've had lots of history with you. Yeah. And you picked this reader. I mean, I had asked about Erigarai because I think you had brought her up last time as somebody we should definitely get to. And we had not gotten to yet. So I didn't know anything about, Seth, had you read any of her?

Yeah. Okay. So, Seth, she's Heideggerian just as much as she's Lakinian. But yeah, Jenny, give us the little intro.

Tell the audience why they should care about this. What's going on here? Oh, well, I guess I think because

she spends a lot of her time demonstrating the ways in which

philosophy as a discipline depends upon a fundamental matricide, right? That the philosophy is structured as a

discipline and the methods and the norms and the, you know,

tools that it uses all require the repression of women as beings in the world, I guess,

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