ABSTRACT
Historically, the question of gender is closely connected with a mode of thought prevalent in Western thinking: that of the (androcentric) sovereign subject as mastering nature and being constitutive of knowledge and experience. Consequently, a rethinking of gender involves reflections upon this classical modern subject, tending to dismantle its sacrosanct position as the foundation stone of human thought. Thus, the chapter presents itself as an essay in deconstructive practice, and attaches to Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida’s works on the disclosure of metaphysics and the dissolution of the subject figure as the ultimate basis of thinking as well as being.
