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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 of breath. Lacking actual, personal experience with yoga or other Eastern spiritual practices, the Western philosophers who have tried to address Hindu and Buddhist teachings -particularly Schopenhauer -have frequently gone astray. Not so, Luce Irigaray. Incorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world. She looks toward the indigenous, pre-Aryan cultures of India -which, she argues, have maintained an essentially creative ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine. Irigaray´s focus on breath in this book is a natural outgrowth of the attention that she has given in previous books to the elements -air, water, and fire. By returning to fundamental human experiences -breathing and the fact of sexual difference -she finds a way out of the endless sociologizing abstractions of much contemporary thought to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization.Amazon.com Review
Between East and West is an attempt to rediscover meaning for Western philosophy and culture by looking outside the Western tradition. Luce Irigaray's passionate intellect is in evidence throughout the book, which she envisions as "a quest for myself, for the world, for the other, beyond illusions, beyond lies." Irigaray, probably the foremost feminist philosopher in France, attempts to "reground" both individuality and community. To do so she examines the experiential aspects of Eastern philosophy, particularly the yogic tradition.

In the original elements of Indian philosophy, Irigaray finds a mythic-philosophic wellspring of ecological and sexual harmony that is predicated on a respect for difference. Ultimately, she wants to show that certain elements of pre-Aryan Indian thought allow us to reconstitute ourselves as individuals and refound our communities. And according to Irigaray, the stakes are high: "Political agendas ... need new formations, perspectives, words and logic," she writes. And if we don't find them, the 21st century "risks being nothing but a pitiful decline of the human species." --Eric de Place ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Philosophy, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 539 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores major marketing and advertising campaigns from 1999-2006. Entries profile recent print, radio, television, billboard and Internet campaigns. Each essay discusses the historical context of the campaign, the target market, the competition, marketing strategy, and the outcome. ... Read more

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Title: La cultura de la diferencia. (extracto de un libro de la escritora feminista Luce Irigaray)(TT: The culture of difference) (TA: excerpt from the book by feminist writer Luce Irigaray)
Author: Rubí de María Gómez
Publication: Fem (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C.
Volume: v21Issue: n174Page: p4(4)

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Title: Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine.(Book Review)
Author: Gill Rye
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 97Issue: 4Page: 988-989

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The question of how to live, how, where, in what wayand in what manner, describes a problem in many women's lives. Irigaray's philosophypresents thepossibility of a practice beyond a simple desire forequality. For those concerned with how we approachthe other, the hidden, or the devalued within ourdiscourses, her work is motivation to take furtherthese theories towards a more radical poetic orartistic practice. The question of dwelling is areconsideration of coexistence, co-habitation and co- belonging, relation rethought. ... Read more

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Much of the scholarship on Luce Irigaray has focused exclusively on her psychoanalytic work. The Feminine and Nihilism engages instead in a careful reading of the major philosophical intertexts in Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. This study is an interpretation of Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference and seeks to uncover how she enters into an amorous dialogue with the silent ground in Nietzsche's thinking: the material. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Luce Irigaray, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2083 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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French theorist Luce Irigaray has become one of the twentieth century's most influential feminist thinkers. Among her many writings are three books (with a projected fourth) in which she challenges the Western tradition's construals of human beings' relations to the four elements--earth, air, fire, and water--and to nature. In answer to Heidegger's undoing of Western metaphysics as a "forgetting of Being," Irigaray seeks in this work to begin to think out the Being of sexedness and the sexedness of Being. This volume is the first English translation of L'oubli de l'air chez Martin Heidegger (1983). In this complex, lyrical, meditative engagement with the later work of the eminent German philosopher, Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air. With the other volumes (Elemental Passions and Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche) in Irigaray's "elemental" series, The Forgetting of Air offers a fundamental rereading of basic tenets in Western metaphysics. And with its emphasis on dwelling and human habitation, it will be important reading not only in the humanities but also in architecture and the environmental sciences. ... Read more

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Refusing to live death means taking away the last destiny of life. This book talks about how to deal with the terminally ill, and teaches how to, from love and respect, face this difficult experience. ... Read more

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In these essays, the author discusses how language, religion, law, art science and technology have failed women and why. She goes beyond analysis and commentary to propose concrete changes tailored to women's specificity in all these fields - practical means of ensuring "our" culture is women's as well as men's. These changes, she argues, are crucial to the survival of humankind and the Earth itself. Irigary's other publications include "Elemental Passions" (1992), "The Ethics of Sexual Difference" (1993) and "Speech is Never Neuter" (1994). ... Read more