The politics of intrusion

New Centennial Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 169-187

  O'Byrne, Anne ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149514118     PISSN: 1532687X     EISSN: 15396630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ncr.2002.0054     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. LIntrus, 8. My translation
2. Kelly Oliver, Family Values (London: Routledge, 1997)
3. Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert Richardson and Anne OByrne (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 79
4. The Sense of the World, trans. Jeffrey Librett (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 136
5. The Birth to Presence, trans. Brian Holmes and others (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), 142
6. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 1
7. See also Nancy, "Someone," in Sense, 68-76
8. Le Toucher: Jean-Luc Nancy (Paris: Galilée, 2000), 137
9. See Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995)
10. See Le Toucher, 183-208
11. Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 61
12. In her more recent book, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Oliver works to develop an understanding of vision as something more like touch and less like the function of the dematerialised eye of modernity (172), describing it as "a type of circulation between and through the tissues of bodies, elements and language" or "the result of the circulation of biosocial energy" (222). Her "look of love" is a tactile look that is "both spiritual and carnal" (215). Nevertheless, it is still a look, and her explicit aim as she moves beyond recognition is not to displace vision in favor of touch but to produce a new, positive notion of vision. For this reason, I concentrate, below, on her discussion of woman and foetus in Family Values as a promising moment in the development of a politics of intrusion
13. See also, however, Subjectivity without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998) where Oliver uses the circulation of blood between foetus and maternal body as the model for her notion of vision as circulation
14. Martin Heidegger, Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 196-97
15. See The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger, trans. Mary Beth Mader (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999), 44
16. In The Experience of Freedom, this interior exteriority is called freedom. Nancy, The Experience of Freedom, trans. Bridget McDonald (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993)
17. Nancy, Corpus (Paris: Métailié, 1992), 16
18. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, s.451. Quoted by Oliver, 37
19. Oliver, Family Values, 98
20. Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, Retreating the Political (London: Routledge, 1997), 133-34