Building a New World Luce Irigaray: Teaching II

In this book young researchers endeavour to build a new world. They neither confine themselves to criticism, resentment and disenchantment nor submit to traditional conceptions of truth, past moral imperatives and suprasensitive ideals alone. Here, young researchers invent another way of thinking, believing, making art, or being political players. They inaugurate an epoch when the cultivation of nature as an environment encompassing natural belonging allows for a world-wide coexistence respectful of differences between sexes, generations, cultures and traditions. The seminar that Luce Irigaray has been holding for 12 years for researchers doing their PhDs on her thought is the place where they gathered and began constructing a culture based on the growing and sharing of life, but also on desire and love in mutual respect. Their contributions are accompanied by three texts of Luce Irigaray and an Afterword by Michael Marder, underlining some conditions for a cultivation of nature.

Luce Irigaray is one of the world's leading feminist thinkers and the author of numerous books, most recently Sharing the World (2008) and In the Beginning She Was (2012). She is now completing a co-authored book with Michael Marder, titled Through Plant Being.

Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Among his books are Plant-Thinking (2013), The Philosopher's Plant (2014), and Pyropolitics (2015).

Introduction; Luce Irigaray
PART I: PHILOSOPHY
Birth or Rebirth through Cultivating Nature and Sexuate Intersubjectivity
1. A Philosophy Faithful to Happiness; Lucia Del Gatto
2. Finding / Founding Our Place: Thinking Luce Irigaray's Ontology and Ethics of Sexuate Difference as a Relational Limit; Emma R. Jones
3. Becoming Two: This Existence Which is Not One; Emily Anne Parker
4. Intersubjectivity and ren: A Cross-cultural Encounter; Gu Keping
5. Cultivating Difference with Luce Irigaray's Between East and West; Laura Roberts
6. Enabling Education: Rethinking Teacher-Student Relationship through Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Difference; Tomoka Toraiwa
PART II: THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY
Reading Sacred Texts and Traditions With a Feminine Belief
7. Maria Redux: Incarnational Readings of Sacred History; Abigail Rine
8. Sensible Transcendental: Recovering the Flesh and Spirit of Our Mother(s); Zeena Elton
9. Godly Virtues: Ethical Implications of Our Conception of the Divine; Elizabeth Lee
10. Language and Love in an Age of Terror; Lisa Watrous
PART III: ART
Paths of Women towards Embodying Themselves
11. Towards a Culture of the Feminine: The Phenomenon of the Princess-Ballerina in Western Culture; Caroline O'Brien
12. From Silence to Breath: An Irigarayan Study of the Representation of Motherhood in Modern Drama; Yan Liu
13. Being Passive / Passive Being: Passivity as Self-Expression in Gothic Literature; Dana Wight
14. Femininity and Subversive Mimicry in Edward Albee's Plays and Beyond; Mona Hoorvash
PART IV: POLITICS
Building a New World Instead of Dwelling on Terrorism
15. The Mimesis that was Not One: Femininity as Camouflage in the Armed Struggle in West Germany; Katharina Karcher
16. Embodying Terror: Reading Terrorism with Luce Irigaray; Liz Sage
17. Being Two in the World: The Bridge Between Sexuate Difference and Cultural Difference in the Work of Luce Irigaray; Marita Ryan
Afterword: Cultivating the World: Luce Irigaray's Water Lily; Michael Marder
Contributions of Luce Irigaray
Ethical Gestures Towards the Other
Perhaps Cultivating Touch Can Still Save Us
Remembering Humanity