Author

Publication

2002 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

37,000 words, Guess

Page Count

148 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number47243928
  • Better World Books9780231119344
  • Better World BooksW8-BRU-964
  • Open LibraryOL18184844M

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1190 .I74713 2002
  • LCCHQ1190.I74713 2002

Description

"A leading philosopher steeped in the Western tradition here thinks 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.". "Luce 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 sexual difference - she finds a way out of the endless sociologizing abstractions of much contemporary thought to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

"There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness" (Sophocles, Antigone, vv. 332-333).

Subjects

Series Statement

  • European perspectives

Other Editions

  • Between East and West: from singularity to communityColumbia University Press2002-01-01

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