Toward Technical Being: A Perspective on Irigaray’s Ethic of Belonging
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https://doi.org/10.18533/1pcfwz92Keywords:
Heidegger, Irigaray, World, Object-oriented ontology, BelongingAbstract
Luce Irigaray puts forth an ethic of belonging rooted in a return and reconsideration of the natural world and our place within it. Starting from a Heideggerian conception of world, Irigaray argues that we get caught up in our everydayness which includes our tool-being mode of engagement with the world as a world of objects ready to be used. Instead, Irigaray argues that it is in recognizing the necessity of mere presence at hand in the natural world where our true sense of relationality can be noted and felt. Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology asserts it's a real object as that which is withdrawn from relation, and in this regard all objects have a world which is their own, and to which we can apply Irigaray’s conception of belonging. This paper explores Some of the key highlights of this ethic of belonging as well as some of the problems that arise from treating it from a Heideggerian perspective. In revising it to fit within Harman’s notion of realism, the ethic of belonging takes on a whole new meaning.
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