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Luce Irigaray

(1930) Philosopher France

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Luce Irigaray is a philosopher from France, best known for Temps de la différence.

Quick Facts About Luce Irigaray

Born: May 3, 1930
Nationality: France
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Temps de la différence

About Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. She is considered one of the founders of French difference feminism.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Luce Irigaray

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance…

Body

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“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

Communication

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Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Differences

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“The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes…

Being

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Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in…

Culture

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“The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of…

Being

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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension,…

Air

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“I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a…

Books

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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Breathing

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Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for…

Death

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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of…

Ambivalence

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Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he…

Character

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Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Becoming

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Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed…

Equations

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Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability…

Ability

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Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has…

Desire

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letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to…

Acceptance

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Every desire has a relation to madness.

Desire

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