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Original Wonder: An Irigarayan Reading of the Genesis Cosmology

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Human beings, modern and ancient alike, are ever attentive to origins; where we come from enables us to understand who we are, and to conceive of who we might become. Luce Irigaray’s most recent work, To Be Born, is concerned precisely with this question of beginnings. As she writes, “unveiling the mystery of our origin is probably the thing that most motivates our quests and plans” (To Be Born, p. v).

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  1. George Fox University, Newberg, OR, USA

    Abigail Rine Favale

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  1. Paris, France

    Luce Irigaray

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Mahon O'Brien

  3. School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Christos Hadjioannou

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Rine Favale, A. (2019). Original Wonder: An Irigarayan Reading of the Genesis Cosmology. In: Irigaray, L., O'Brien, M., Hadjioannou, C. (eds) Towards a New Human Being. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03392-7_8

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