Book Description
If Western philosophy has claimed to be a love of wisdom, it has forgotten to become a wisdom of love. We still lack words, gestures, ways of doing or thinking to approach one another as humans, to enter into dialogue, to build a world where we can live together.
Globalisation represents an opportunity but also a danger for humanity. Sameness has been the key to the construction of Western cultures and societies. Difference - beginning with sexual difference - can open up for us an era of inter-communication, from our most everyday exchanges to the universal interweaving of a democratic global community.
About the author
A doctor of philosophy, Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as one of France's most influential theorists, 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.
