To Be Two

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.

Luce Irigaray is the author of the feminist classics Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Routledge publishes several of her more recent books, including Je Tu Nous and I Love to You.