Luce Irigaray
L'oubli de l'air -- chez Heidegger.
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1983. Collection Critique. 270730638X 157 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"French theorist Luce Irigaray has become one of the twentieth century’s most influential feminist thinkers. Among her many writings are three books (with a projected fourth) in which she challenges the Western tradition’s construals of human beings’ relations to the four elements―earth, air, fire, and water―and to nature. In answer to Heidegger’s undoing of Western metaphysics as a "forgetting of Being," Irigaray seeks in this work to begin to think out the Being of sexedness and the sexedness of Being... In this complex, lyrical, meditative engagement with the later work of the eminent German philosopher, Irigaray critiques Heidegger’s emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air."