To Be Two

In this major new work French philosopher Luce Irigaray continues to explore the issue central to her thought: the feminist redefinition of Being and Identity. For Irigaray the notion of the individual is twinned with a reconceived notion of difference or alterity. What does it mean to be someone? How can identity be created or discovered in relation to others? In To Be Two Irigaray gives new clarity to her project grounding it in relation to such major figures as Sartre Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. Yet at the same time she enriches her discussion with an attempt to bring the elements--earth fire water--into philosophical discourse. Even the polarities of heaven and earth come to play in this ambitious and provocative text. At once political philosophical and poetic To Be Two will become one of Irigarary's central works.