Warwick Studies in European Philosophy- Textures of Light

Title: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy- Textures of Light

Author: Cathryn Vasseleu

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9780415142748

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Textures of Light opens up new debates within continental and feminist philosophy. It will also be essential reading for anyone interested in visual studies and the philosophical issues of vision.

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 agreed 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 privilege of subjectivity and masculinity in such a metaphor.