LEADER 03167oam 2200697I 450 001 9910807076503321 005 20221213231949.0 010 $a1-134-76521-5 010 $a1-134-76520-7 010 $a1-280-18232-6 010 $a0-203-28238-8 010 $a0-203-04770-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203047705 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007897 035 $a(EBL)169195 035 $a(OCoLC)264484666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000311295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11245213 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10315836 035 $a(PQKB)11527146 035 $aebr2003057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC169195 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL169195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10070610 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL18232 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007897 100 $a20180331d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTextures of light $evision and touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty /$fathryn Vasseleu 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (166 pages) 225 1 $aWarwick studies in European philosophy 300 $aA portion of the text has appeared as Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's Transfiguration of Night, in Teresa Brennan and Martin Jay (eds), Vision in Context, New York and London: Routledge, 1996.--P. [vii]. 311 1 $a0-415-14273-3 311 1 $a0-415-14274-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 129-151) and index. 327 $apart Part I TRUE LIGHT -- chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part II CARNAL LIGHT -- chapter 2 Introduction to Merleau-Ponty -- chapter 3 Living Flesh -- chapter 4 Vision in the Flesh -- chapter 5 Touching Flesh -- part Part III PERVERSE LIGHT -- chapter 6 Introduction to Levinas -- chapter 7 Scintillating Lighting -- chapter 8 The Lightness of Touch -- chapter 9 Illuminating Passion -- part Part IV EROTIC LIGHT -- chapter 10 Conclusion. 330 $aTextures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light in Western thought. Since Plato's allegory of the cave, light and the role of sight have been accorded a unique position in Western thought. They have stood as a metaphor for truth and objectivity and the very axis of modern rationalism. More recently however, this status has come under significant criticism from continental and feminist thought which has stressed the privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in 410 0$aWarwick studies in European philosophy. 606 $aVision 606 $aLight 606 $aTouch 606 $aPhilosophy, French$y20th century 615 0$aVision. 615 0$aLight. 615 0$aTouch. 615 0$aPhilosophy, French 676 $a121/.35 700 $aVasseleu$b Cathryn$f1957,$01657932 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807076503321 996 $aTextures of light$94011660 997 $aUNINA