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.
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An original, sophisticated and nuanced contribution to feminist theory and Irigaray scholarship. An outstanding contribution is also made to reading Merleau-Ponty and Levinas in a way that adds a fascinating perspective to their standard interpreters.
–Tina Chanter, Brown University
A strikingly original reading of Luce Irigaray's meditations on sight.
–Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
–Tina Chanter, Brown University
A strikingly original reading of Luce Irigaray's meditations on sight.
–Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
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Cathryn Vasseleu is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales.
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Merleau-Ponty's writing on vision must be located in the context of his claim that perceptual experience has a corporeally defined reality that is missing in empiricist and consciousness-based explanations of the interaction between a body and its world in perception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anonymous sensibility, double touching, specular body, erotic light, carnal intimacy, perceptual faith, tangible invisible, libidinal body, anonymous existence, intimate perception, ethical subjectivity, sensible being Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Merleau-Ponty's writing on vision must be located in the context of his claim that perceptual experience has a corporeally defined reality that is missing in empiricist and consciousness-based explanations of the interaction between a body and its world in perception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anonymous sensibility, double touching, specular body, erotic light, carnal intimacy, perceptual faith, tangible invisible, libidinal body, anonymous existence, intimate perception, ethical subjectivity, sensible being Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Phenomenology of Perception, Emmanuel Levinas, The Structure of Behaviour, While Levinas New!
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- The Visible and the Invisible (Studies in Phenomenology and Existental Philosophy) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on 7 pages
- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 7 pages
- Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (Studies in Continental Thought) by Adriaan T. Peperzak on 5 pages
- Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Galen A. Johnson on 4 pages
- The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Maureen F. Curtin on 4 pages
- Embodiment and Education: Exploring Creatural Existence (Philosophy and Education) by Marjorie O'Loughlin on page 54, and page 94
- Peter Ackroyd: The Lucid and Labyrinthine Text by Jeremy Gibson on page 52, and Back Matter
- Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction (Understanding Feminist Philosophy) by Carolyn Korsmeyer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (Suny Series in Hegelian Studies) by Alison Stone in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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