| Sumario: | As resistant hierarchical structure, the patriarchal order creates a crippled world in which the diversity is reduced to the One and the difference is assimilated or pushed as inferior. One of the most important contemporary thinkers and leading figure in the feminist theory, Luce Irigaray opposes her thesis for a relational and open to new configurations identity that becomes a way not only to the rehabilitation of women, but also to a new type of education and spirituality. The article discusses some cardinal points in the works of Irigaray (sexuated difference and ethics of difference; double male-female subject and being-two) as consecutive levels in the creation of space of reciprocity, love and sharing. It aims to prove that Irigaray does not limit her deconstruction to refutation, but proposes alternative solutions: original reading of the possibility to overcome the universal subject by opposing it with a different subject; positive strategy for a new type of sociality, built upon the non-hierarchic relation between two subjects of equal value. The autor makes a comparison between Irigaray's „being-two“ and Levinas' „being-fortheOther”: Lévinas refers to hypostasis of the self in the other, while Irigaray asserts that each of the two independent and different subjects has its own boundaries, and these boundaries contribute to their drawing close together; in the framework of Lévinas's ethics of responsibility the hypostasis of the self is final, while in Irigaray's ethics of difference, the transgression of the self is temporary and counterbalanced by loyalty to oneself; the two subjects remain open to new shared worlds and new returnings to oneself.
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