Description of the woman, for a philosophy of the sexed other

Abstract

In these pages, we reproduce the first text ever published by Gilles Deleuze (France, 1925-1995), that is included in the edition Letters and other texts, appeared in France in 2015, that will be translated to Spanish by Cactus. In this article, Deleuze aims to construct a sexed philosophy of the other; in order to achieve so, he applies to the concept of Autrui, coined by Michel Tournier, the gesture that Sartre had performed with classical philosophy: to charge it with desire. In the quest for the unity of the expression and the expressed, he undergoes the description of a series of unilateral aspects of what he considers to be the feminine (around the axis of the materiality and the immateriality). Next, thanks to the kind authorization of Cactus, we include the translations of two other texts: the letters addressed to Voeffray (where he offers many details about the meaning of the transcendental empiricism) and to Bernold (with some of the last words before suicide).