Between East And West: From Singularity to Community - Softcover

Luce Irigaray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8178222159 ISBN 13: 9788178222158

Publisher: New Age Books, 2005

Synopsis

Leading philosophers in the western tradition explore ancient Eastern disciplines. According to the author, Yogic tradition can provide a vital link between the present and eternity.

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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

Book Description

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, and an ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Age Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 8178222159
• ISBN 13: 9788178222158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161