Luisa Muraro

Luisa Muraro (born June 14, 1940 in Montecchio Maggiore , Vicenza Province ) is an Italian philosopher and feminist .

life and work

Luisa Muraro studied at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where she graduated in philosophy in 1965. In 1975, together with other feminists, she founded the women's collective of the Milanese women's bookstore Libreria delle donne di Milano , which jointly wrote books under this name that were also translated into German and publishes the magazine Via Dogana . From 1976 to 2005 she taught at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Verona , where she founded the Diotima community of women philosophers in 1984 with Chiara Zamboni , Wanda Tommasi and Adriana Cavarero (until 1990) , named after the literary figure in Plato's Dialog Symposium .

Luisa Muraro is considered the outstanding thinker of a philosophical-feminist approach, the Italian pensiero della differenza sessuale (English: thinking of the gender difference), which she developed with the Diotima group and the Milanese authors' collective. Based on the French philosopher Luce Irigaray , by whom Muraro translated two works into Italian, the Italian difference thinkers put forward the thesis “that the gender difference in Western discourse was not thought of as egalitarian, but rather moved within an identity logic, in femininity only counts as negation and complementarity of masculinity. ”(Heike Kalhert) In addition to the difference between the sexes, they also distinguish the difference between women and within each woman. Based on this, they worked out a policy of relations between women, which they call an affidamento (Italian: to entrust oneself). In the practice of affidamento , women give each other authority and power. This policy leads to a new symbolic order , which can only arise if the relationship with the mother, as the first relationship, is valued. The Italian difference thinkers advocate a policy of women as a cross-sectional policy and reject a policy for women, because a specific women's policy would confirm female subordination to the male-dominated general.

Publications in German translation (selection)

• Vilemína and Mayfreda. The story of a feminist heresy , Kore Verlag, Freiburg 1987, ISBN 3-926023-04-X
• The symbolic order of the mother ( L'ordine simbolico della madre , Rome 1991), Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-593-34829-2
• The crowd in the heart ( La folla nel cuore , Rome 2000), Christel-Göttert-Verlag, Rüsselsheim 2001, ISBN 3-922499-53-8
• The god of women ( Il Dio delle donne , Milan 2003), Frank & Timme , Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86596-214-0
• Strength and violence ( Dio è violent , Gransasso 2012), Christel Göttert Verlag, Rüsselsheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-939623-48-9
• Not everything can be taught ( Non si può insegnare tutto , Editrice La Scuola 2013), Christel Göttert Verlag, Rüsselsheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-939623-57-1

Diotima

• Bring the world into the world. Politics, gender difference and the work on the symbolic (Ed., Translated from Italian and commented by Andrea Günter , Dorothee Markert and Antje Schrupp ), Ulrike Helmer Verlag , Königstein im Taunus 1999, ISBN 3-89741-030-3 .
• Beyond equality. On power and the feminine roots of authority , (Ed. And translated from Italian by Dorothee Markert and Antje Schrupp), Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein im Taunus 1999, ISBN 3-89741-023-0 .
• Power and politics are not the same . Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Sulzbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-89741-338-2 .

Libreria delle donne di Milano

• How female freedom arises. A new political practice . Orlanda Frauenbuchverlag, 5th edition Berlin 2001 (1988), ISBN 978-3-929823-83-7
• The patriarchy is over. It happened - not by accident . Christel Göttert Verlag, Rüsselsheim 1996, ISBN 3-922499-28-7

literature

• Theresia Wintergerst: Skepticism and joy. Political self-organization and the philosophy of Luisa Muraro. (Univ., Diss., Munich 2005), Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2006, ISBN 3-89741-195-4
• Heike Kahlert: Difference, Genealogy, Affidamento. The Italian, pensiero della differenza sessualé in the international reception. In: Handbook women and gender research, VS Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-92041-2 , table of contents

Web links

• Literature by and about Luisa Muraro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Diotima group of women philosophers at the University of Verona
• Words and bodies in circulation . Introductory lecture by Luisa Muraro at the Leipzig Book Fair 2001
• Luisa Muraro: Politics and power are not the same . A film by Antje Schrupp, Verona June 26th 2011, video on Youtube

See also

• feminism
• Women's movement
• Feminist Philosophy

Individual evidence

1. ^ Libreria delle donne di Milano (it.)
2. ↑ Website of the magazine (it.) ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Luisa Muraro (1940-) . In: Gaetana Marrone et al. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies . Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3 , pp. 1249f.
4. ^ Heike Kahlert : Difference, Genealogy, Affidamento. The Italian, pensiero della differenza sessualé in the international reception. In: Kortendiek et al. Handbook women and gender research , VS Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-92041-2 , p. 94f.