Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray : Language

A broad exploration of Irigarays philosophy of life and living.

Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in womens and gender studies, stands in contrast to philosophys traditional grounding in death, exemplified in the work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Schopenhauer. The contributors to Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray consider Irigarays criticisms of the traditional Western philosophy of death, including its either-or dualisms and binary logic, as well as some of Irigarays "solutions" for cultivating life. The book is comprehensive in its analyses of Irigarays relationship to classical and contemporary philosophers, writers, and artists, and produces extremely fruitful intersections between Irigaray and figures as diverse as Homer and Plato; Alexis Wright, the First-Nations novelist of Australia; and twentieth-century French philosophers like Sartre, Badiou, Deleuze, and Guattari. It also develops Irigarays relationship to the arts, with essays on theater, poetry, architecture, sculpture, and film.