TEXTURES OF LIGHT by Cathryn Vasseleu ( 9780415142731 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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TEXTURES OF LIGHT
VISION AND TOUCH IN IRIGARAY, LEVINAS AND MERLEAU PONTY

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Cathryn Vasseleu

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0415142733

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

5 February, 1998

Series:

Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

Pages:

168

Description:

Drawing on the work of Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, this text is a study of the importance of light in Western thought. It shows the ambivalent role light plays within philosophy and challenges interpretations of Irigaray as a theorist of touch by presenting her as a philosopher of vision.

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Textures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light in Western thought. Since Plato's allegory of the cave, light and the role of sight have been accorded a unique position in Western thought. They have stood as a metaphor for truth and objectivity and the very axis of modern rationalism. More recently however, this status has come under significant criticism from continental and feminist thought which has stressed the privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in such a metaphor.

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