Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and by Cathryn Vasseleu

By Cathryn Vasseleu

Textures of Light attracts at the paintings of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to offer a good and flooring breaking learn of the important value of sunshine in Western proposal. due to the fact that Plato's allegory of the cave, gentle and the position of sight were accorded a different place in Western concept. they've got stood as a metaphor for fact and objectivity and the very axis of recent rationalism. extra lately despite the fact that, this prestige has come below major feedback from continental and feminist idea which has under pressure the privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in this sort of metaphor.

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