In the Beginning, She Was

by Luce Irigaray

In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the beginning, Western tradition represents an exile for humanity. Indeed, to emerge from the maternal origin, man elaborated a discourse of mastery and constructed a world of his own that grew away from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441106375
• ISBN13: 9781441106377
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"