Amnesia at the beginning of time

Abstract

"In conversation with Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray is very self-conscious about how she situates herself as his interlocutor. She is aware of the debt of thanks that she owes him: that he has been a large enough presence in European philosophy that, like a meteor, he altered its terrain. Heidegger is one of the ‘elements’ with which Irigaray works, and which enables her philosophy