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Sharing the Fire

Outline of a Dialectics of Sensitivity

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Authors:
  1. Luce Irigaray

    1. Paris, France

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  • 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

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Hypothesis: Longing for Another Absolute Than Knowledge

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Desire to Be

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 7-29

  4. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 31-53

  5. The Absolute After Which Desire Aspires

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 55-76

  6. Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 77-101

  7. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction

    • Luce Irigaray
    Pages 103-108

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 109-111
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About this book

Whilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human. He ignores the dialectical process regarding sensitivity and sensuousness. And yet this is needed to make spiritual the relation between two human subjectivities differently determined by nature and to ensure the connection between body and spirit, nature and culture, private life and public life. This leads Hegel to fragment human subjectivity into yearnings for art, religion and philosophy thereby losing the unity attained through the cultivation of a longing for the absolute born of a desire for one another as different.


Furthermore, our epoch of history is different from the Hegelian one and demands that we consider additional aspects of human subjectivity. This is essential if we are to overcome the nihilism inherent in our traditional metaphysics without falling into aworse nihilism due to a lack of rigorous thinking common today.


The increasing power of technique and technologies as well as the task of building a world culture are two other challenges we face. Our sexuate belonging provides us with a universal living determination of our subjectivity – now a dual subjectivity - and also with a natural energy potential which allows us to use technical resources without becoming dependent on them.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Paris, France

    Luce Irigaray

About the author

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sharing the Fire

  • Book Subtitle: Outline of a Dialectics of Sensitivity

  • Authors: Luce Irigaray

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28330-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28329-2Published: 02 January 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28330-8Published: 13 December 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 111

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Ethics, Feminism, German Idealism, Continental Philosophy

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