Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) Book

Light has often been privileged as a metaphor for objectivity and truth in Western thought, a status that has been challenged by recent feminist thought as giving entitlement to the masculine. This book presents a compelling new perspective on...Read More

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    Textures of Light opens up new debates within continental and feminist philosophy. It will also be essential reading for anyone interested in visual studies and the philosophical issues 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.

  • 0415142741
  • 9780415142748
  • Cathryn Vasseleu
  • 5 February 1998
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 168
  • 1
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