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(1993) Japanese and Western phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter explores the phenomenological appropriation of the feminine which it characterizes in terms of the "tragic." This theme is traced by means of a meandering of thoughts that find their way from Derrida's reading of "woman" in Nietzsche's text, back into Nietzsche and finally, further back into what is identified, with the assistance of Karl Kerénhyi's philological work, as the tragic voice of the feminine. This voice, manifest in the tragic heroine Medea, announces the withdrawal of transcending desire and with it the death of the souL The issue of the degree to which Derrida, Nietzsche and phenomenology in general account for the conditions of this withdrawal and death comprises the focus of the discussion.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8218-6_13
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Sena, M. (1993)., The tragic voice of the feminine and its significance for phenomenology, in P. Blosser, E. Shimomissé, L. Embree & H. Kojima (eds.), Japanese and Western phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 181-192.
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