Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Thinking Life as Relation - interview with Stephen Pluhacek and Heidi Bostic (Michigan Technological University, USA) 2. Towards a Wisdom of Love - dialogue with Judith Still (University of Nottingham, UK) 3. 'Oneness' and 'Being Two' in Practice and Culture of Yoga - interview with Michael Stone 4. 'Being Two' in Architectural Perspective - interview with Andrea Wheeler (University of Nottingham, UK) 5. Becoming Woman: Each One and Together - interview with Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool, UK) 6. A Feminine Figure in Christian Tradition - interview with Margaret R. Miles and Laine M. Harrington (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA) 7. The Invisible Interlacing Between Fleshes - essay and interview with Helen A. Fielding (Western Ontario University, Canada) 8. Sexuate Identities as Global Beings Questioning Western Logic - interview with Elizabeth Grosz (SUNY, USA) 9. New Challenges in Education - interview with Michael Worton (UCL, UK) Postscript: The Long Path Towards Being a Woman - interview with Birgitte H. Midttun Bibiliography

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An important collection of interviews in which Luce Irigaray discusses the full range of her work and ideas with leading academics in the fields of Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Critical Theory.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Mention -Book News, February 2009

"[Conversations] testifies to Irigaray's prodigious ability to think creatively about a huge range of questions, and to offer a comprehensive and unique approach to the contemporary world." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Reviewed in Textual Practice 25(1)