Luce Irigaray on Sharing the World

Sharing the World: From Intimate to Global Relations: We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which the other belongs. A phenomenological approach to this question offers some help, notably through Heidegger's analyses of 'Dasein', 'being-in-the-world' and 'being with'. Nevertheless, according to Heidegger, it remains almost impossible to identify an other outside of our own world. 'Otherness' is subjected to the same values by which we are ourselves defined and thus we remain in 'sameness'. In this age of multiculturalism and in the light of Nietzsche's criticism of our values and Heidegger's deconstruction of our interpretation of truth, Irigaray questions the validity of the 'sameness' that sits at the root of Western culture.

How to Share the World: Luce Irigaray's public lecture at Queen Mary, University of London on 19 June:

We cannot share the world as it already is, with the exception of the natural world. The world that we can share is always and still to be elaborated by us and between us starting from what and who we are as humans here and now. Humans who endeavour to use their own energy as well as that arising from their difference to create a world in which we can live in peace and happiness.