{"product_id":"between-east-and-west-european-perspectives-a-series-in-social-thought-and-cultural-criticism-0231119348","title":"Between East and West (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0231119348\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Irigaray, Luce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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-and for re-envisioning the patriarchal traditions of the West.Western, logocentric rationality tends to abstract the teachings of yoga from its everyday practice-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-particularly Schopenhauer-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-which, she argues, have maintained an essentially creative ethic of sexual difference predicated on a respect for life, nature, and the feminine.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 the fact of sexual difference-she finds a way out of the endless sociologizing abstractions of much contemporary thought to rethink questions of race, ethnicity, and globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51685032427808,"sku":"NEW0231119348","price":123.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71U8NP5Z2oL.jpg?v=1779368567","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/between-east-and-west-european-perspectives-a-series-in-social-thought-and-cultural-criticism-0231119348","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}