Table of Contents

1. Prologue: An Elusive Origin.- 2. Chapter 1: To Give Birth to Oneself.- 3. Chapter 2: Coming into the World.- 4. Chapter 3: Growing.- 5. Chapter 4: To Inhabit the World.- 6. Chapter 5: Dwelling in Oneself.- 7. Chapter 6: Being With.- 8. Chapter 7: To Become Oneself.- 9. Chapter 8: Language to Produce Something or to Produce Someone?.- 10. Chapter 9: The Source of the Word.- 11. Chapter 10: A Universe of Knowledge and Duties.- 12. Chapter 11: Acknowledgment and Recognition.- 13. Chapter 12: Desire as Rebirth.- 14. Chapter 13: The Necessity of Love.- 15. Chapter 14: Giving Birth to One Another.- 16. Chapter 15: To Conceive a New World.- 17. Chapter 16: Bringing forth the Future.- 18. Epilogue: On Feet of Dove.

About the Author

Luce Irigaray is one of the leading thinkers of our age. She is author of more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are Sharing the World (2008), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Through Vegetal Being (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016). She is also the co-editor (with Michael Marder) of Building a New World (2015), a volume in which early-career researchers from her seminars explore new ways of thinking, in order to promote a world-wide community respectful of differences between the sexes, generations, cultures and traditions.