Textures of light : vision and touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty / / athryn Vasseleu
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| Autore: |
Vasseleu Cathryn <1957, >
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| Titolo: |
Textures of light : vision and touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty / / athryn Vasseleu
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (166 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121/.35 |
| Soggetto topico: | Vision |
| Light | |
| Touch | |
| Philosophy, French - 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | A 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]. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-151) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Textures of light |
| ISBN: | 1-134-76521-5 |
| 1-134-76520-7 | |
| 1-280-18232-6 | |
| 0-203-28238-8 | |
| 0-203-04770-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450247003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Warwick studies in European philosophy.