To Be Two
Published on 25. September 2017
136 pages
978-1-351-53899-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this major new 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 someone? How can identity be created, or discovered, in relation to others? In To Be Two Irigaray gives new 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 ambitious and provocative text. At once political, philosophical, and poetic, To Be Two will become one of Irigarary's central works.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
2,73 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-53899-2 (9781351538992)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
Luce Irigaray is the author of the feminist classics Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is NotOne. Routledge publishes several of her more recent books, including Je Tu Nous and I Love to You.
Content
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
