Luce Irigaray, a trained, psychoanalyst, has two doctorates, one in linguistics and one in philosophy. Her books include Speculum of the Other, This Sex Which is Not One, and Ethics of Sexual Difference, all published by Cornell University Press.

"In An Ethics of Sexual Difference, Luce Irigaray offers the strongest feminist readings in the history of philosophy that I know. These readings enter the philosophical canon with a fine critical edge, 'miming' the masters, and exposing the erasure/construction of the feminine by which they proceed. Theoretically extravagant but pervasively erudite, Irigaray's text not only recasts philosophy as feminist reading, but establishes feminist criticism at its most philosophically consequential. Translated with precision and nuance, this text will now alter the field of 'philosophy and feminism' in English-speaking contexts."—Judith Butler

• Translators' NotePart ISexual DifferenceSorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato, Symposium, "Diotima's Speech"Place, Interval: A Reading of Aristotle, Physics IVPart IILove of SelfWonder: A Reading of Descartes, The Passions of the SoulThe Envelope: A Reading of Spinoza, Ethics, "Of God"Part IIILove of Same, Love of OtherAn Ethics of Sexual DifferencePart IVLove of the OtherThe Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, "The Intertwining-The Chiasm"The Fecundity of the Caress: A Reading of Levinas, Totality and Infinity, "Phenomenology of Eros"

Luce Irigaray, a trained, psychoanalyst, has two doctorates, one in linguistics and one in philosophy. Her books include Speculum of the Other, This Sex Which is Not One, and Ethics of Sexual Difference, all published by Cornell University Press.

"In An Ethics of Sexual Difference, Luce Irigaray offers the strongest feminist readings in the history of philosophy that I know. These readings enter the philosophical canon with a fine critical edge, 'miming' the masters, and exposing the erasure/construction of the feminine by which they proceed. Theoretically extravagant but pervasively erudite, Irigaray's text not only recasts philosophy as feminist reading, but establishes feminist criticism at its most philosophically consequential. Translated with precision and nuance, this text will now alter the field of 'philosophy and feminism' in English-speaking contexts."—Judith Butler

• Translators' NotePart ISexual DifferenceSorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato, Symposium, "Diotima's Speech"Place, Interval: A Reading of Aristotle, Physics IVPart IILove of SelfWonder: A Reading of Descartes, The Passions of the SoulThe Envelope: A Reading of Spinoza, Ethics, "Of God"Part IIILove of Same, Love of OtherAn Ethics of Sexual DifferencePart IVLove of the OtherThe Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, "The Intertwining-The Chiasm"The Fecundity of the Caress: A Reading of Levinas, Totality and Infinity, "Phenomenology of Eros"

Luce Irigaray, a trained, psychoanalyst, has two doctorates, one in linguistics and one in philosophy. Her books include Speculum of the Other, This Sex Which is Not One, and Ethics of Sexual Difference, all published by Cornell University Press.

"In An Ethics of Sexual Difference, Luce Irigaray offers the strongest feminist readings in the history of philosophy that I know. These readings enter the philosophical canon with a fine critical edge, 'miming' the masters, and exposing the erasure/construction of the feminine by which they proceed. Theoretically extravagant but pervasively erudite, Irigaray's text not only recasts philosophy as feminist reading, but establishes feminist criticism at its most philosophically consequential. Translated with precision and nuance, this text will now alter the field of 'philosophy and feminism' in English-speaking contexts."—Judith Butler

• Translators' NotePart ISexual DifferenceSorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato, Symposium, "Diotima's Speech"Place, Interval: A Reading of Aristotle, Physics IVPart IILove of SelfWonder: A Reading of Descartes, The Passions of the SoulThe Envelope: A Reading of Spinoza, Ethics, "Of God"Part IIILove of Same, Love of OtherAn Ethics of Sexual DifferencePart IVLove of the OtherThe Invisible of the Flesh: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, "The Intertwining-The Chiasm"The Fecundity of the Caress: A Reading of Levinas, Totality and Infinity, "Phenomenology of Eros"