Product Description: Argues that women writers of the French eighteenth century claimed reason and contributed to Enlightenment. Eighteenth century French thinkers in diverse fields repeatedly pro claimed that the light of reason becomes distorted when it passes through the lens of femininity...read more

Product Description: Jacques Fontanille’s The Semiotics of Discourse fills a long-standing need for a clear, comprehensive overview of narrative semiotic theory. The book skillfully blends a historical perspective with an emphasis on recent developments...read more

Product Description: In this analysis of language and human relations, Luce Irigaray approaches both these issues from the perspective of sexual difference, which she has argued is perhaps the most fundamental question for our time. She asks the question "how can we love each other?"...read more