Luce Irigaray is a leading thinker of our age. She has written more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are To Be Born (2017), Through Vegetal Being  (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Sharing the World  (2008). She is also the co-editor of Towards a New Human Being (with Mahon O’Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, 2019), a volume in which early-career researchers and established academics respond to To Be Born, as part of  a longer-term undertaking with a view to giving birth to a new human being and building a new world.

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• Chapter 1: Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge.- Chapter 2. The Desire to Be.- 2.1. Giving Birth to our To Be.- 2.2. Dwelling place opened by desire.- 2.2. The gift of nothing.- 2.3. Assuming non-being.- 2.4. Sexuation as first logos.- 2.5. Infinity arising from finiteness.- Chapter 3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity.- 3.1. What mood allows meeting together?.- 3.2. Energy as sensitive mediation.- 3.3. About universality of sensitive experience.- 3.4. Here and now in intersubjective relations.- 3.5. The qualitative truth of our being.- 3.6. For me for you; for you for me.- Chapter 4: The Absolute after which Desire Aspires.- 4.1. Towards a non-pathological pathos.- 4.2. From subordination to conjunction.- 4.3. Self-affection and self-consciousness.- 4.4. An absolute rooted in nature.- 4.5. Light for which sensitivity longs.- 4.6. Desire as transcendental intuition.- Chapter 5: Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity.- 5.1. From Subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection.- 5.2. Nature and Freedom.- 5.3. Crucial stage of the relation between two.- 5.4. Sharing the fire.- 5.5. Lost differentiation due to sight.- 5.6. Living individuation shaped by mutual desire. Chapter 6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction.

Luce Irigaray is a leading thinker of our age. She has written more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are To Be Born (2017), Through Vegetal Being  (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Sharing the World  (2008). She is also the co-editor of Towards a New Human Being (with Mahon O’Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, 2019), a volume in which early-career researchers and established academics respond to To Be Born, as part of  a longer-term undertaking with a view to giving birth to a new human being and building a new world.

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• Chapter 1: Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge.- Chapter 2. The Desire to Be.- 2.1. Giving Birth to our To Be.- 2.2. Dwelling place opened by desire.- 2.2. The gift of nothing.- 2.3. Assuming non-being.- 2.4. Sexuation as first logos.- 2.5. Infinity arising from finiteness.- Chapter 3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity.- 3.1. What mood allows meeting together?.- 3.2. Energy as sensitive mediation.- 3.3. About universality of sensitive experience.- 3.4. Here and now in intersubjective relations.- 3.5. The qualitative truth of our being.- 3.6. For me for you; for you for me.- Chapter 4: The Absolute after which Desire Aspires.- 4.1. Towards a non-pathological pathos.- 4.2. From subordination to conjunction.- 4.3. Self-affection and self-consciousness.- 4.4. An absolute rooted in nature.- 4.5. Light for which sensitivity longs.- 4.6. Desire as transcendental intuition.- Chapter 5: Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity.- 5.1. From Subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection.- 5.2. Nature and Freedom.- 5.3. Crucial stage of the relation between two.- 5.4. Sharing the fire.- 5.5. Lost differentiation due to sight.- 5.6. Living individuation shaped by mutual desire. Chapter 6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction.

Luce Irigaray is a leading thinker of our age. She has written more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are To Be Born (2017), Through Vegetal Being  (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Sharing the World  (2008). She is also the co-editor of Towards a New Human Being (with Mahon O’Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, 2019), a volume in which early-career researchers and established academics respond to To Be Born, as part of  a longer-term undertaking with a view to giving birth to a new human being and building a new world.

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• Chapter 1: Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge.- Chapter 2. The Desire to Be.- 2.1. Giving Birth to our To Be.- 2.2. Dwelling place opened by desire.- 2.2. The gift of nothing.- 2.3. Assuming non-being.- 2.4. Sexuation as first logos.- 2.5. Infinity arising from finiteness.- Chapter 3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity.- 3.1. What mood allows meeting together?.- 3.2. Energy as sensitive mediation.- 3.3. About universality of sensitive experience.- 3.4. Here and now in intersubjective relations.- 3.5. The qualitative truth of our being.- 3.6. For me for you; for you for me.- Chapter 4: The Absolute after which Desire Aspires.- 4.1. Towards a non-pathological pathos.- 4.2. From subordination to conjunction.- 4.3. Self-affection and self-consciousness.- 4.4. An absolute rooted in nature.- 4.5. Light for which sensitivity longs.- 4.6. Desire as transcendental intuition.- Chapter 5: Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity.- 5.1. From Subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection.- 5.2. Nature and Freedom.- 5.3. Crucial stage of the relation between two.- 5.4. Sharing the fire.- 5.5. Lost differentiation due to sight.- 5.6. Living individuation shaped by mutual desire. Chapter 6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction.