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Breathing with Luce Irigaray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Contributors to this volume consider the implications of 'the Age of Breath': a spiritual shift in human awareness to the needs of the other figured through breathing. Awareness of the breath allows us to attend to our bodies and the bodies of others, to animals, nature, other cultures, oppressed minorities, and the other of sexual difference. As a way to connect body and spirit, self and other, nature and culture, and East and West, breathing emerges as the significant theological and philosophical gesture of our time. Philosophy has too often cut off metaphysical thought from this living, breathing world with its animal and female bodies, just as religious traditions have repressed the breathing flesh in favour of calcified word. The re-introduction of breath into philosophy and theology draws our awareness back to the body, to respect for the other, and to nature, making awareness of the breath essential for an embodied ethics of difference in our globalized, ecological age. These themes are addressed by an international team of scholars, including Luce Irigaray.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-10
Mått162 x 238 x 18 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor256
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441115485

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List of Contributors1. Towards Breathing with Luce Irigaray Lenart Škof & Emily A. HolmesPart I: Spiritual Breathing2. When Cherubim Touch: The Cleaving Feminine Wing of the Dual-Gendered Cherubim in 2 Chronicles (Divrei Hayammim 3: 11-12) Julie Kelso 3. The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology Emily A. Holmes4. The Prayers We Breathe: Embodying the Gift of Life in the Maternal Feminine Eleanor Sanderson Part II: Intercultural Breathing5. Breath of Awakening: Nonduality, breathing and sexual difference Jean Marie Byrne6. That Tender Discipline: Spacing, Structured Nothingness & Kumbhaka Antonia Pont Part III: Natural Breathing7. Towards a shared desire for sustainability: Rethinking community starting from different feminine approaches to nature Claudia Bruno8. Breathing With the Natural World: Irigaray, environmental philosophy, and the alterity of nature Tomaž Grušovnik 9. Breathing with Animals: Irigaray’s Contribution to Animal Ethics Sara Štuva Part IV: Contextual Breathing10. All of My Work is Performance: Irigarayan Methods of Breath for Dance and Voice Shannon Wong Lerner11. Subjectivity and Sexual Difference: New Figures of the Feminine in Irigaray and Cavarero Diane Perpich12. Breathing the Political: A meditation on the preservation of life in the midst of war Elisha Foust13. The Distant ('dis-t?nt) Stillness that is 'Breth Sigrid Hackenberg y AlmansaPart V: Conclusion14. To Begin with Breathing Anew Luce IrigarayBibliographyIndex

An unusually diverse range of international scholars and practitioners in various fields take up Luce Irigaray’s recent work inspired, in part, by her own yoga practice. Without avoiding the difficult questions of essentialism, Orientalism, and white solipsism, they find within this work breathing room, if you will, for engaging significant issues that arise where theory and practice, body, mind and spirit meet.