Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Creating the Background for the Emergence of a New Human Being; Part I A Different Way of Bringing Up and Educating Children; How to Lead a Child to Flower: Luce Irigaray's Philosophy of the Growth of Children; The Child's Encounter with Living Beings; The Child's Own Longings; The Child's Sexuate Being; The Breach the Child Opens in Our Horizon; Bibliography; What a Child Can Teach Us; Mothering and the Child; Breath, Movement, Self-Affection; Educating the Child; What a Child Can Teach Us; Bibliography

To Be Born a Girl? Irigaray, Sexuate Identity and the GirlIntroduction; Mother and Daughter or Woman and Girl?; Re-conceptualizing the Girl; The Girl's Self-Affection; Conclusion; Bibliography; From Desire to Be Born to Desire for Being Together in the Philosophy of Luce Irigaray; Introduction; Beyond Symmetry; Beyond "Familialism"; Sharing Desire Through Sexuate Difference; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part II Constitution of a New Environment and Sociocultural Milieu; Heidegger, the Fourfold and Luce Irigaray's To Be Born: An Architectural Perspective; The New Human in To Be Born

Dwelling and the 'Fourfold' in Heidegger's PhilosophyAn Environment Suitable for the Development of a New Human; Bibliography; "Testimony Against the Whole": Examining the Limits of Peace with Irigaray and Derrida; Introduction; Jacques Derrida's 'Living Together'; Peace Beyond the Level of Needs in Luce Irigaray's To Be Born; Conclusion; Bibliography; Politics of Relation, Politics of Love; Introduction; The Impasse of Identity; To Be Born: A New Logos; A Relational Limit and an Ethical Call; Politics of Relation, Politics of Love; Conclusion: Rebirth in Love; Bibliography

Original Wonder: An Irigarayan Reading of the Genesis CosmologyOriginal Difference; Original Wonder; Original Schism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Faithful to Life; Incarnation: Faithful to One's Living Body; Embodied Grace: Faithful to Breath/Spirit/Soul; Desire: Living Words, Life-Giving Communion; Birthing the Future; Bibliography; Part III Questioning the Philosophical Background of Our Culture; Re-founding Philosophy with Self-Affection; The Metaphysics of the Phaedo; Socrates' Self-Affecting; What Is Affect?; Problematising the Active/Passive of Affect

Self-Affection Through Breathing and Meditative PracticeBibliography; Can Our Being in the World Remain in the Neuter?; Introduction; Heidegger's Ontological Project; Being-Towards-Death and Authentic Resoluteness; Dasein's Constitutive Structures; Irigaray's Ontological Project; Finitude and Birth; Becoming Autonomous and Embodying Our Sexuate Structure; Concluding Remark; Bibliography; On Nietzsche and Pregnancy; The Beginning of the Genesis of a New Human Being; Introduction; Critique and Transformation; The Animal with No Fixed Horizons; Pregnancy in Dawn; Pregnancy in Zarathustra