To Be Two

A thoroughgoing feminist critique of the accounts of Being found in some of the key texts of existentialism and phenomenology, in particular Sartre, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. Knowing the other as beloved is intimately related to a changing perception of the other of the cosmos.

About the author

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, her work focuses on the culture of two subjects, masculine and feminine - particularly through the liberation of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of literary forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Cocito-Monoc, Luce Irigaray, Irigaray Luce, Monique Rhodes
• Assisted by: Cocito-Monoc Marco F. (Translation), Monoc Marco F.Cocito- (Translation), Rhodes Monique (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780485121209
• ISBN: 978-0-485-12120-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 171 g
• Illustrations: black & white illustrations
• Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers S.
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Feminism and feminist theory, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism