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‘Letting the other be as other’ obviously does not mean here that one will not establish a relation with an other, that one will leave the other alone, or that one and other will not interact with one another. Irigaray’s philosophy has no room for thinking in that way. On the contrary, her entire work involves a sustained engagement with the relational aspects of human life. One of the most important questions for her is, precisely, how to establish a relationship between two individuals who are irreducible to one another, without reducing them to a one. In her ethics of difference I and the other remain two, and whereas we are related to one another, through our relationship, each realizes its own becoming, its own blossoming.
The highest rule of the word would consist in not appropriating the thing but letting it be as thing. What is sought here is beyond: how to let be the other as other while speaking, speaking to them. Moreover: how to encourage the other to be and to remain other. How to let the other come into presence, even to lead them there, without claiming to be their founding.
(Luce Irigaray, The Way of Love, p. 29)
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Toraiwa, T. (2015). Enabling Education: Rethinking the Teacher-Student Relationship through Luce Irigaray’s Ethics of Difference. In: Irigaray, L., Marder, M. (eds) Building a New World. Palgrave Studies in Postmetaphysical Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453020_6
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