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

Textures of Light

Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty

By: Cathryn Vasseleu

Hardcover | 5 February 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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. Textures of Light clearly shows the ambivalent role light plays within philosophy. Cathryn Vasseleu challenges current interpretations of Luce Irigaray as a theorist of touch by presenting her as a philosopher of vision. She also draws upon Merleau-Ponty's anti-Platonic claims for the corpreal and social context of the visual. There is also a fascinating discussion of Levinas' insistence that light is 'first experience.' Throughout, the tension between vision and touch is carefully and clearly explored to present a challenging interpretation of how these often antagonistic concepts can be combined to develop a new theory of the visual within philosophy.
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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

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