Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, 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.

• Acknowledgements \ 1. Introduction: The Ecstasy of the Between-Us \ 2. When Life Still Was \ 3. A Being Created Without Regard for His Being Born \ 4. The Wandering of Man \ 5. Between Myth and History: The Tragedy of Antigone \ 6. The Return

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, 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.

• Acknowledgements \ 1. Introduction: The Ecstasy of the Between-Us \ 2. When Life Still Was \ 3. A Being Created Without Regard for His Being Born \ 4. The Wandering of Man \ 5. Between Myth and History: The Tragedy of Antigone \ 6. The Return

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A doctor of philosophy, Luce Irigaray is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Now acknowledged as a key influential thinker of our times, 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.

• Acknowledgements \ 1. Introduction: The Ecstasy of the Between-Us \ 2. When Life Still Was \ 3. A Being Created Without Regard for His Being Born \ 4. The Wandering of Man \ 5. Between Myth and History: The Tragedy of Antigone \ 6. The Return