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 --
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.
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