Frasi di Luce Irigaray
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Luce Irigaray
Data di nascita:3. Maggio 1930
Frasi Luce Irigaray
„Per promuovere un mondo nuovo, c'è bisogno di pensiero. Non basta fermarsi a qualche slogan concernente il potere, la soggettività femminile, la politica del fra donne eccetera. Si tratta di riflettere su quale contenuto oggettivo si mette dietro gli slogan, e di verificare se questo contenuto si possa condividere e come. Se ogni donna si accontenta di rivendicare il diritto alla propria soggettività, temo che una condivisione pubblica fra le donne non potrà mai esserci. Lo stesso vale se le donne si accontentano di cercare di appropriarsi di un'oggettività culturale e politica definita da e per gli uomini. Il compito più importante che le donne oggi devono assumere è lavorare alla loro individuazione come persone civili e culturali. La politica, per non dire la democrazia, dovrebbe essere un affare di convivenza civile fra le persone prima di essere un affare di rivalità per il possesso, il potere, la poltrona.“
— Luce Irigaray
da un intervento su Repubblica, 28 novembre 2007; citato in Loredana Lipperini, La ragazza di Dino, Lipperatura, 28 novembre 2007
„Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.“
— Luce Irigaray
To Be Two
„Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.“
— Luce Irigaray
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
„The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry out the destiny of humanity, the man-human and the woman-human each have to fulfill what they are and at the same time realize the unity that they constitute.“
— Luce Irigaray
Way of Love
„Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.“
— Luce Irigaray
Between East and West: From Singularity to Community
„I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture.“
— Luce Irigaray
Between East and West: From Singularity to Community
„The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being.“
— Luce Irigaray
Way of Love
„Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.“
— Luce Irigaray
This Sex Which Is Not One
