The way of love / Luce Irigaray ; translated by Heidi Bostic and Stephen Pluháček.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irigaray, Luce.

Contributor:

Bostic, Heidi.

Pluháček, Stephen.

Standardized Title:

Voie de l'amour. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Sex differences.

Physical Description:

xxii, 174 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2002.

Summary:

The Way of Love asks the question: How can we love each other? Here Luce Irigaray, one of the world's foremost philosophers, presents an extraordinary exploration of desire and the human heart. If Western philosophy has claimed to be a love of wisdom, it has forgotten to become a wisdom of love. We still lack words, gestures, ways of doing or thinking to approach one another as humans, to enter into dialogue, to build a world where we can live together. Globalisation represents an opportunity but also a danger for humanity. Sameness has been the key to the construction of Western cultures and societies. Difference -- beginning with sexual difference -- can open up for us an era of inter-communication, from our most everyday exchanges to the universal interweaving of a democratic global community.

Contents:

The Sharing of Speech 13

On the Way to Proximity 15

From the Multiple to the Two 24

To Speak Of or To Speak With? 34

Wandering to the Source of the Intimate 44

Being With the Other 55

The Creation of the Verb 57

Letting Be Transeendence 65

Co-Belonging in the Opening 75

Being in Relation with the Other 85

Thanks to Difference 97

The Unthinkable Difference 99

The Triology of the Real 108

Making/Letting Be 117

Engendered Not Created by One Another 127

Rebuilding the World 137

The Other at the Crossroads Between Past and Future, Between Earth and Sky 139

The Intimate Requires Separate Dwellings 148

The Name of the Other 157

This Nothingness Which Separates Us 166.

Notes:

Translation of: La voie de l'amour.

ISBN:

082645982X

OCLC:

51483256