{"title":"Books by Luce Irigaray","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780231173872","title":"Through Vegetal Being – Two Philosophical Perspectives","description":"Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal world has the potential to rescue our planet and our species and offers us a way to abandon past metaphysics without falling into nihilism. Luce Irigaray has argued in her philosophical work that living and coexisting are deficient unless we recognize sexuate difference as a crucial dimension of our existence. Michael Marder believes the same is true for vegetal difference.  Irigaray and Marder consider how plants contribute to human development by sustaining our breathing, nourishing our senses, and keeping our bodies and minds alive. They note the importance of returning to ancient Greek tradition and engaging with Eastern teachings to revive a culture closer to nature. As a result, we can reestablish roots when we are displaced and recover the vital energy we need to improve our sensibility and relation to others.   This generative discussion points toward a more universal way of becoming human that is embedded in the vegetal world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228743938421,"sku":"9780231173872","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780231173872_7c8fb1ae-ac8c-4e45-80f3-f34a442f58d4.jpg?v=1786012527"},{"product_id":"9780415771986","title":"Je, Tu, Nous","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring women's experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290140062069,"sku":"9780415771986","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415771986_cc72c29e-37bf-4104-a9af-cf61d0b91ef5.jpg?v=1786013561"},{"product_id":"9780801493300","title":"Speculum of the Other Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a major text in the post-1968 feminist inquiry in France. It will be of interest to feminists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, and literary critics. There is no other text that attempts to do readings of major texts within the Western philosophical tradition using Lacanian, Derridean, and feminist tools. Gillian C. Gill offers a remarkable performance in translating without betraying a very challenging text.\"\u003cbr\u003e ―Elaine Marks, Department of French and Italian and Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpeculum of the Other Woman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a \"dark continent,\" unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, \"The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry,\" Irigaray rereads Freud's essay \"Femininity,\" and his other writings on women, bringing to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the last section, \"Plato's Hystera,\" Irigaray reinterprets Plato's myth of the cave, of the womb, in an attempt to discover the origins of that ideology, to ascertain precisely the way in which metaphors were fathered that henceforth became vehicles of meaning, to trace how woman came to be excluded from the production of discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween these two sections is \"Speculum\"-ten meditative, widely ranging, and freely associational essays, each concerned with an aspect of the history of Western philosophy in its relation to woman, in which Irigaray explores woman's essential difference from man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294960726389,"sku":"9780801493300","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780801493300_1535995f-2df8-42fb-bb76-9dbfe3d5fe11.jpg?v=1786015966"},{"product_id":"9780231177139","title":"A New Culture of Energy","description":"In A New Culture of Energy, Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western traditions, and the reenvisioning of religious figures for the contemporary world. A philosopher as well as a psychoanalyst, Irigaray draws deeply on her personal experience in addressing these questions. In her view, although psychoanalysis can succeed in releasing mental energy, it fails to support physical and spiritual well-being. In pursuit of an alternative, she took up the bodily practices of yoga and pranayama breathing, which she considers in light of her analysis of sexuate belonging and difference. Reflecting on these practices, Irigaray contrasts yoga’s approach to the natural world with how the Western tradition privileges mastery over nature. These varied sources provoke her to question how a tradition imagines transcendence and the divine. In the book’s final section, she reinterprets the figure of Mary through breath, self-affection, and touch, recalibrating her physicality within a natural world. A reflection on the liberation of human energy, this book urges us to cultivate an evolutionary culture in harmony with all living beings.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311635050869,"sku":"9780231177139","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780231177139_8a78f8cb-f742-4e69-90da-f35bb60dc604.jpg?v=1786012536"},{"product_id":"9783031374128","title":"The Mediation of Touch","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating to each other  has barely been considered by our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch, we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our bodies. Then we remain immersed in a natural or a cultural universe, incapable of reaching our own individuation and of knowing our fundamental difference from the  other(s).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesire, in particular sexuate desire, is a call for touching one another anew. But this touch  requires us to have gained our autonomy and to be able to open up to and  commune with the other as transcendent to ourselves while staying  in ourselves. This book unveils and explores how touch can act as a basic living mediation in love and,more generally, in our comprehensive individual and collective human becoming. It also considers how touch can contribute to founding  a culture respectful of difference instead of subjecting them to an ideal of sameness. We need touch as mediation to fulfil our humanity and to build a truly human thinking and world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313273024885,"sku":"9783031374128","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783031374128_b58db527-9cfe-48f2-b4c0-0a2a815202d4.jpg?v=1786031862"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-luce-irigaray.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}