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Autore: | Irigaray Luce |
Titolo: | Between East and West : from singularity to community / / Luce Irigaray ; translated by Stephen Pluhacek |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.42/01 |
Soggetto topico: | Feminist theory |
Man-woman relationships | |
Pranayama | |
East and West | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Half title""; ""Series Page""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents;""; ""Preface to the English Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""The Time of Life""; ""Eastern Teachings""; ""The Way of Breath""; ""Being I , Being We""; ""The Family Begins with Two""; ""Approaching the Other as Other""; ""Mixing: A Principle for Refounding Community""; ""Notes""; ""Series List"" |
Sommario/riassunto: | With this book we see a philosopher well steeped in the Western tradition thinking through ancient Eastern disciplines, meditating on what it means to learn to breathe, and urging us all at the dawn of a new century to rediscover indigenous Asian cultures. Yogic tradition, according to Irigaray, can provide an invaluable means for restoring the vital link between the present and eternity -- and for re-envisioning the patriarchal traditions of the West. Western, logocentric rationality tends to abstract the teachings of yoga from its everyday practice -- most importantly, from the cultivation |
Titolo autorizzato: | Between East and West |
ISBN: | 0-231-50792-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825016203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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