ABSTRACT
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 been accorded 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 privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in such a metaphor.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|18 pages
True light
chapter 1|16 pages
Introduction
part II|54 pages
Carnal Light
chapter 2|5 pages
Introduction to Merleau-Ponty
chapter 3|15 pages
Living Flesh
chapter 4|19 pages
Vision in the Flesh
chapter 5|13 pages
Touching Flesh
part III|47 pages
Perverse Light
chapter 6|3 pages
Introduction to Levinas
chapter 7|20 pages
Scintillating Lighting
chapter 8|11 pages
The Lightness of Touch
chapter 9|11 pages
Illuminating Passion
part IV|8 pages
Erotic Light