[A lire*** 100] • Être Deux

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

some"one"? 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.