Sharing the World. From Intimate to Global Relations

Synopsis
This exciting new book is the follow-up to Irigaray's The Way of Love, arguably her most important and widely-discussed work to date.
Description
In this important new book, Luce Irigaray, one of France's most influential contemporary theorists, turns once again to the concept of otherness.
We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual among others without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which this other belongs. 'Otherness' is thus subjected to our own values and the other remains our companion, ultimately regarded as the same as us. The difference between us is only evaluated in a quantitative, and not a qualitative, way and thus the opportunity to promote coexistence, peace and love is lost.
In this age of multiculturalism, and following Nietzsche's criticism of our traditional values and Heidegger's deconstruction of our interpretation of truth, Irigaray, as a woman, questions the validity of the 'sameness' that sits at the root of Western culture. Advancing the work undertaken in The Way of Love, she proposes new ways to meet and coexist with the other as other, at both the most intimate and the most global and universal of levels.
Table Of Contents
Introduction: The Transcendence of the Other
1. The Path Toward the Other
2. At the Crossroads - The Encounter
3. The World of the Beyond
4. Distance in Nearness
Afterword