Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty
Cathryn Vasseleu
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
年:
2002
版本:
1
出版商:
Routledge
語言:
english
頁數:
166
ISBN 10:
0415142741
ISBN 13:
9780415142748
系列:
Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
文件:
PDF, 2.44 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002