<p>With this book we see a philosopher well steeped in the Western tradition thinking 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. Yogic tradition, according to Irigaray, can provide an invaluable means for restoring the vital link between the present and eternityーand for re-envisioning the patriarchal traditions of the West.</p> <p>Western, logocentric rationality tends to abstract the teachings of yoga from its everyday practiceーmost importantly, from the cultivation of breath. Lacking actual, personal experience with yoga or other Eastern spiritual practices, the Western philosophers who have tried to address Hindu and Buddhist teachingsーparticularly Schopenhauerーhave frequently gone astray. Not so, Luce Irigaray. 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. She looks toward the indigenous, pre-Aryan cultures of Indiaーwhich, she argues, have maintained an essentially creative ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.</p> <p>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ーair, water, and fire. By returning to fundamental human experiencesーbreathing and the fact of sexual differenceーshe finds a way out of the endless sociologizing abstractions of much contemporary thought to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。
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