Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray is a retired director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris. She has doctorates in philosophy (1974), in linguistics (1968) and in philosophy and literature (1955). She is also trained in psychoanalysis and in yoga. She is a regular reader of the work of Heidegger, to whom she has devoted a book L’ oubli de l’air (1983, translated as The Forgetting of Air, 1999) and to whom she refers in many of her publications.