AN INTERVIEW WITH LUCE IRIGARAY ON THROUGH VEGETAL BEING: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES AND SEXUATE DIFFERENCE

Abstract

In this interview the philosopher Luce Irigaray discusses her book Through Vegetal Being. In response to questions, she distinguishes the human relationship to the environment and to other human beings. She describes how we must change our manner of relating to nature, beginning with our own: to learning how to coexist as a natural being among others instead of dominating the natural world. We must cultivate our instincts, free ourselves from traditions and elaborate a new education and sociocultural order and it is then that we will perceive that we cannot share with plants and animals all that we can share with another human being.