Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty

by Cathryn Vasseleu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134765201
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2002
Series:	Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	298 KB

About the Author

Cathryn Vasseleu

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Vasseleu (philosophy, U. of New South Wales) looks at the metaphor of light as truth and objectivity in western thought by examining its role the work of three contemporary philosophers. She opens new debates on feminist thinking, phenomenology, and philosophical issues surrounding sight. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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