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In the Beginning, She Was

In the Beginning, She Was


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About the Book

In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the beginning, Western tradition represents an exile for humanity. Indeed, to emerge from the maternal origin, man elaborated a discourse of mastery and constructed a world of his own that grew away from life and prevented perceiving the real as it is. To recover our natural belonging and learn how to cultivate it humanly is imperative and needs turning back before the golden age of Greek culture. Another language is, then, to discover, capable of expressing living energy and transforming our instincts into shareable desires.

In the Beginning, She Was reworks themes that are central to Irigaray's thought: the limits of Western logic, the sexuation of discourse, the existence of two different subjects, the necessity of art as mediation towards another culture. These themes are approached with a new level of maturity that reconfirms the place of Irigaray as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441106377
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1441106375
  • Publisher Date: 27 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 181 gr


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