- Represents the latest ideas from a world leading philosopher whose work is taught in universities throughout the world.
- Displays the next move in Irigaray’s thought in rethinking the concept of being and the relationship of beings to one another.
- Offers a new approach to the problems of infancy and origin.
- Touches upon themes common in Irigaray’s thought, including language, duties and the world.
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- About this book
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“According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone. Love, whose destiny is said to be unique amongst the gods and humans, perhaps embodies desire for a conjunction always in search of its happening. Love would represent a dynamism longing for the copula incarnating the transcendence of our being. As such, Love would remain the everlasting yearning for the accomplishment of the ecstatic destiny of humanity.”
In this book, Luce Irigaray - philosopher, linguist, psychologist and psychoanalyst - proposes nothing less than a new way of conceiving what a human being is as well as a means to ensure our individual and relational development from birth.
- About the authors
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Luce Irigaray is one of the leading thinkers of our age. She is author of more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are Sharing the World (2008), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Through Vegetal Being (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016). She is also the co-editor (with Michael Marder) of Building a New World (2015), a volume in which early-career researchers from her seminars explore new ways of thinking, in order to promote a world-wide community respectful of differences between the sexes, generations, cultures and traditions.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- To Be Born
- Book Subtitle
- Genesis of a New Human Being
- Authors
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- Luce Irigaray
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-39222-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-39222-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-39221-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 106
- Topics