Sharing the World

by Luce Irigaray

In this important new book, a follow up to The Way of Love, Luce Irigaray, one of France's most influential contemporary theorists, turns once again to the concept of otherness.

We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which the other belongs. A phenomenological approach to this question offers some help, notably through Heidegger's analyses of "Dasein", "being-in-the-world" and "being with'. Nevertheless, according to Heidegger, it remains almost impossible to identify an other outside of our own world. "Otherness" is subjected to the same values by which we are ourselves defined and thus we remain in "sameness'. In this age of multiculturalism and in the light of Nietzsche's criticism of our values and Heidegger's deconstruction of our interpretation of truth, Irigaray questions the validity of the "sameness" that sits at the root of Western culture.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

136 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Presently, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.

Reviews

[Adrian Anghel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chiar dacă mi-a luat mult timp s-o citesc pe îndelete, să-i ajung până în străfunduri pentru a înțelege întreaga filosofie a autoarei, trebuie să spun că-i o carte pe care fiecare dintre noi, membri responsabili ai unei societăți civile, ar trebui s-o citim. E de datoria noastră morală să pricepem cum ne putem deschide mai mult către Celălalt, cum ar trebui să renunțăm la adversitățile cotidiene bazată de diferență negativă și cum ar trebui să înțelegem că fiecare are lumea lui / ei, depinde de noi să-i lărgim orizonturile.

[Jerri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like the ideas of being acutely aware of parameters (sense of self) in order to know what you are experiencing of the other. So much of Irig's work is miming. It's nice to see that a binary ethical model needs two subjects well aware that they are not alone.

[Dan AF]

Dnf

[Jordany · Rating 5 out of 5]

seriously beautiful.