Luce Irigaray is a leading thinker of our age. She has written more than thirty books translated into various languages, the most recent of which are To Be Born (2017), Through Vegetal Being (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016), In the Beginning, She Was (2012) and Sharing the World (2008). She is also the co-editor of Towards a New Human Being (with Mahon O'Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, 2019), a volume in which early-career researchers and established academics respond to To Be Born, as part of a longer-term undertaking with a view to giving birth to a new human being and building a new world.

Represents the latest ideas from world leading philosopher Luce Irigaray

Returns to Irigaray's lifelong passion of dialoguing with Hegel

Explores the dialectics of sensitivity, sensuousness and the philosophy of desire

Proposes desire as a crucial stage to our becoming truly human

Chapter 1: Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge.- Chapter 2. The Desire to Be.- 2.1. Giving Birth to our To Be.- 2.2. Dwelling place opened by desire.- 2.2. The gift of nothing.- 2.3. Assuming non-being.- 2.4. Sexuation as first logos.- 2.5. Infinity arising from finiteness.- Chapter 3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity.- 3.1. What mood allows meeting together?.- 3.2. Energy as sensitive mediation.- 3.3. About universality of sensitive experience.- 3.4. Here and now in intersubjective relations.- 3.5. The qualitative truth of our being.- 3.6. For me for you; for you for me.- Chapter 4: The Absolute after which Desire Aspires.- 4.1. Towards a non-pathological pathos.- 4.2. From subordination to conjunction.- 4.3. Self-affection and self-consciousness.- 4.4. An absolute rooted in nature.- 4.5. Light for which sensitivity longs.- 4.6. Desire as transcendental intuition.- Chapter 5: Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity.- 5.1. From Subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection.- 5.2. Nature and Freedom.- 5.3. Crucial stage of the relation between two.- 5.4. Sharing the fire.- 5.5. Lost differentiation due to sight.- 5.6. Living individuation shaped by mutual desire. Chapter 6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction.