Approaching a Sensitive Thinking with Luce Irigaray

Andrea S. Wheeler is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. After completing her PhD on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the notion of dwelling, she has worked in the fields of sustainable architectural theory and the philosophy of Luce Irigaray.

Jennifer Carter is a Lecturer of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. She specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray. Her forthcoming book,  On Touch with Luce Irigaray  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), explores Irigaray’s sustained engagement with touch as grounding subjectivity and human life.

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 trained in psychoanalysis and in yoga. She has written more than thirty books translated in various languages. She has also co-edited three books composed of texts by early career researchers as part of a long-term undertaking to give birth to a new human being and construct a new world.