Building a New World Luce Irigaray: Teaching II

In this volume 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 supra-sensitive ideals alone. Here, young researchers invent another way of thinking, believing, making art, or being political players. They can be seen as inaugurating 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 over a decade now for researchers doing their PhDs on her own 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 necessary conditions for such a cultivation of nature.