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While considering sensitivity lower than thought, our tradition left sensitivity uncultivated and thinking a mental concern, which limited human development. Making flower our whole being requires us to surmount such hierarchy towards a sensitive thinking. This book, inspired by Luce Irigaray’s Sharing the Fire, undertakes to approach this further cultural stage by focusing attention on life and sharing in education but also in relating to our environment, be it natural, sociocultural or technological as well as in our contribution to a sensitive thinking in art, spirituality, ethics and politics. This can lead on to a culture which gives up past confinements in systematic closures of understanding by favouring difference over sameness, subject-subject logic over subject-object logic, sharing over individual mastery, touch over sight. The teaching of the confinement due to the COVID-19 virus ought to incite us to enter into such a new, universally open, cultural era.
Andrea S Wheeler is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. After completing her PhD on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the notion of dwelling, she has worked in the fields of sustainable architectural theory and the philosophy of Luce Irigaray.
Jennifer Carter is a Lecturer of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. She specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray. Her forthcoming book, On Touch with Luce Irigaray (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), explores Irigaray’s sustained engagement with touch as grounding subjectivity and human life.
List of contents
1. Introduction. Andrea Wheeler and Jennifer Carter with Luce Irigaray.- Part 1. Life, Growth and Education, 2. Tal Menahem, “Self-affection and pedagogy”.- 3. Antonella Lo Sardo, “Coming back to self, sharing the desire”, A philosophical itinerary in education with Luce Irigaray”.- 4. Lucia Del Gatto “Embracing life”.- 5. Emily Holmes, “Gift of the Vegetal” Part 2. Care and Love.- 6. Beatriz Condo Alonso “The freedom or damnation of our mask”.- 7. Damien Tissot, “The care of sexual difference”.- 8. Silvia Locatelli “Irigaray: Beyond Hegel in the Relation between Subjects“.- Part 3. Art.- 9. Andrea Wheeler, “Love, energy, and the heart in architecture”.- 10. Ferdia Stone, “Cultivating desire in the case of musical indwelling”.- 11. Gillian Nevis “A dialogue with Mary and the Lover”. Part 4. Sensitivity in Relations.- 12. Wesley Barker “Beyond Belief: Angels, mucous, and the incarnation of desire”.- 13. Angelika Stathopolous “Between asceticism and abundance towards an ethics of passivity” .- 14. Jennifer Carter “Politics of Sensitivity in Luce Irigaray’s Sharing the Fire”.- Part 5 Epilogue.- 15. Luce Irigaray. “Confined in a Metaphysical Horizon”.
About the author
Andrea S Wheeler is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. After completing her PhD on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the notion of dwelling, she has worked in the fields of sustainable architectural theory and the philosophy of Luce Irigaray.
Jennifer Carter is a Lecturer of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. She specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray. Her forthcoming book, On Touch with Luce Irigaray (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), explores Irigaray’s sustained engagement with touch as grounding subjectivity and human life.
Summary
While considering sensitivity lower than thought, our tradition left sensitivity uncultivated and thinking a mental concern, which limited human development. Making flower our whole being requires us to surmount such hierarchy towards a sensitive thinking. This book, inspired by Luce Irigaray’s Sharing the Fire, undertakes to approach this further cultural stage by focusing attention on life and sharing in education but also in relating to our environment, be it natural, sociocultural or technological as well as in our contribution to a sensitive thinking in art, spirituality, ethics and politics. This can lead on to a culture which gives up past confinements in systematic closures of understanding by favouring difference over sameness, subject-subject logic over subject-object logic, sharing over individual mastery, touch over sight. The teaching of the confinement due to the COVID-19 virus ought to incite us to enter into such a new, universally open, cultural era.
