In Luce's preface to the english translation she defines (without defining) her mode of writing and how she sets her writing as 'discourse in real time'. She is exemplifying philosophy in the feminine "where the values of intersubjectivity, of dialogue in difference, of attention to present life, in its concrete and sensible aspects ... raised to the level of wisdom" (viii-x). She is in dialogue with Heidegger.
She finds for this project that "narrative and descriptive languages are no longer appropriate". It is about making something "exist in the present and thus into the future". She talks about "staging an encounter" between two who haven't yet meet in real time. Through text we can do it. "prepare a place of proximity". I suppose it is drawing another being into yourself - Luce prepares the space within her. That is gutsy territory ... but can be natural. Don't women carries little life forms within them? Luce meets in the womb ... in her own womb. Drawing the discourse into the place which nurtures, begins, becomes, and births into the world.
She writes of four voices in her text. Heideggers, her own, the reader, and her translators who shaped her words into language my mother spoke. Its fascinating to think that I am one of her voices. She includes me. Once again I drawn, invited into a text in Luce's embrace - I have this opportunity to speak with her.
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