Between East and West

Between East and West

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Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: New Age Books
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 164
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178222159

Description

A leading philosopher steeped in the Western tradition explores ancient Eastern disciplines, meditating on what it means to learn to breathe: the result is a powerful challenge to discover the relevance of indigenous Asian philosophy to our lives.

According to Luce Irigaray, yogic tradition can provide a vital link between the present and eternity, allowing us to reexamine and reenvision the patriarchal traditions of the West. Lacking 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. Incorporating her personal experience with yoga into her provocative philosophical thinking on sexual difference, Luce Irigaray proposes a new way of understanding individuation and community in the contemporary world.

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 though to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization.

Contents

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

INTRODUCTION

The Time of Life

Eastern Teachings

The Way of Breath

Being I, Being We

The Family Begins with two

Approaching the other as other

Mixing: A Principle for Refounding Community

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