Building a New World

Lucia Del Gatto, Università degli Studi di Perugia, ItalyZeena Elton, University of Queensland, AustraliaMona Hoorvash, Shiraz University, IranEmma R. Jones, University of Oregon, USAKatharina Karcher, University of Warwick, UKGu Keping, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P. R. ChinaElizabeth Lee, High Point University, USAYan Liu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P. R. ChinaCaroline O'Brien, National College of Art and Design, IrelandEmily Anne Parker, Santa Clara University, USAAbigail Rine, University of Georgia, USALaura Roberts, University of Queensland, AustraliaMarita Ryan, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, IrelandLiz Sage, University of SussexTomoka Toraiwa, Nagoya University, JapanLisa Watrous, Michigan Technological University, USADana Wight, University of Alberta, Canada

'Now, perhaps only the fact of thinking can still rescue humanity, our planet and all living beings - thinking as an act that concerns the whole being, and especially the heart, the organ that can join together the corporeal part to the spiritual part of our human being, and allow the old man of our Western tradition to attain a new humanity.' - Luce Irigaray 'Having thrown off the straightjackets of metaphysical reasoning, living thought turns toward corporeity stamped by finitude and sexual difference, to the world around us, to the rhythms of the earth, and to a wealth of non-Western philosophical traditions. The work of Luce Irigaray is open to, and rooted in, all of these dimensions of experience, which it has been able to regain at the dusk of metaphysics.' - Michael Marder

• Introduction; Luce Irigaray PART I: PHILOSOPHY Birth or Rebirth through Cultivating Nature and Sexuate Intersubjectivity 1. A Philosophy Faithful to Happiness; Lucia Del Gatto 2. Finding / Founding Our Place: Thinking Luce Irigaray's Ontology and Ethics of Sexuate Difference as a Relational Limit; Emma R. Jones 3. Becoming Two: This Existence Which is Not One; Emily Anne Parker 4. Intersubjectivity and ren: A Cross-cultural Encounter; Gu Keping 5. Cultivating Difference with Luce Irigaray's Between East and West; Laura Roberts 6. Enabling Education: Rethinking Teacher-Student Relationship through Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Difference; Tomoka Toraiwa PART II: THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY Reading Sacred Texts and Traditions With a Feminine Belief 7. Maria Redux: Incarnational Readings of Sacred History; Abigail Rine 8. Sensible Transcendental: Recovering the Flesh and Spirit of Our Mother(s); Zeena Elton 9. Godly Virtues: Ethical Implications of Our Conception of the Divine; Elizabeth Lee 10. Language and Love in an Age of Terror; Lisa Watrous PART III: ART Paths of Women towards Embodying Themselves 11. Towards a Culture of the Feminine: The Phenomenon of the Princess-Ballerina in Western Culture; Caroline O'Brien 12. From Silence to Breath: An Irigarayan Study of the Representation of Motherhood in Modern Drama; Yan Liu 13. Being Passive / Passive Being: Passivity as Self-Expression in Gothic Literature; Dana Wight 14. Femininity and Subversive Mimicry in Edward Albee's Plays and Beyond; Mona Hoorvash PART IV: POLITICS Building a New World Instead of Dwelling on Terrorism 15. The Mimesis that was Not One: Femininity as Camouflage in the Armed Struggle in West Germany; Katharina Karcher 16. Embodying Terror: Reading Terrorism with Luce Irigaray; Liz Sage 17. Being Two in the World: The Bridge Between Sexuate Difference and Cultural Difference in the Work of Luce Irigaray; Marita Ryan Afterword: Cultivating the World:Luce Irigaray's Water Lily; Michael Marder Contributions of Luce Irigaray Ethical Gestures Towards the Other Perhaps Cultivating Touch Can Still Save Us Remembering Humanity