Conversations

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)

Luce Irigaray is a French Feminist and psychoanalytic and cultural theorist. She was previously Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and is now a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is widely acknowledged as one of France's most influential theorists.

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.