Textures of Light

Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-14274-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

Reihe: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vasseleu, Cathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements TRUE LIGHT 1. Introduction CARNAL LIGHT 2. Introductory comments 3. Living Flesh 4. Vision in the Flesh 5. Touching Flesh PERVERSE LIGHT 6. Introductory comments 7. Scintillating Lighting 8. The Lightness of Touch 9. Illuminating Passion EROTIC LIGHT 10. Conclusion Notes References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cathryn Vasseleu