![]() 94) I disagree with Mortensen’s critiques, and my explicit elaboration of Irigaray’s positive ontological vision of sexuate difference both in this chapter and in the next chapter will ultimately show how these critiques are misplaced. ![]() Mortensen also argues that Irigaray herself forgets the ontological difference, because she conflates the ontological (being as the event of clearing) with the ontic (the air). In Touching Thought, Mortensen argues that feminist theory needs a return to ontological questioning, amid what she perceives as the domination of a “technological episteme” (p. Ellen Mortensen’s books Touching Thought: Ontology and Sexual Difference ( 2002) and The Feminine and Nihilism: Luce Irigaray With Nietzsche and Heidegger ( 1994) substantially discuss The Forgetting of Air. Tina Chanter’s Ethics of Eros offers a helpful discussion of the relation between the two, focusing on both An Ethics of Sexual Difference and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger. ![]() Several scholars have discussed the relation between Irigaray and Heidegger, although many commentaries still predate the publication of The Way of Love and Sharing the World, texts that explicitly frame themselves as dialogues with Heidegger. ![]()
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