{"product_id":"between-east-and-west-from-singularity-to-community-1","title":"Between East and West: from singularity to community","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780231119344-001","offer_id":43774409474109,"sku":"9780231119344-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/7250143482270.jpg?v=1791292843","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/between-east-and-west-from-singularity-to-community-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}