To Be Two

ISBN-13: 9780415918152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 128 str.

Luce Irigaray; Marco F. Cocito-Monoc; Monique Rhodes

Opis

In this work, French philosopher Luce Irigaray continues to explore the issue central to her thought: the feminist redefinition of being and identity. For Irigaray, the notion of the individual is twinned with a reconceived notion of difference, or alterity. What does it mean to be some one? How can identity be created or discovered, in relation to others? In To Be Two Irigaray gives clarity to her project, grounding it in relation to such major figures as Sartre, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty. Yet at the same time, she enriches her discussion with an attempt to bring the elements - earth, fire, water - into philosophical discourse. Even the polarities of heaven and earth come to play in this text.

Spis treści

1. Prologue; 2. The Wedding Between the Body and Language; 3. Daughter and Woman; 4. To Perceive the Invisible in You; 5. To Love to the Point of Safeguarding You; 6. I Announce to You that We are Different; 7. To Conceive Silence; 8. Between Us, A Fabricated World; 9. She Before the King; 10. Each Transcendent to the Other; 11. How Can I Touch You if You are Not There?; 12. A Mystery Which Illuminates; 13. Epilogue; Author's Notes; Translator's Notes; Index

O autorze

Luce Irigaray is the author of the feminist classics Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Routledge publishes several of her more recent books, including Je Tu Nous and I Love to You.