Between East and West: From Singularity to Community

Luce Irigaray

Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11935-1
$22.50 / £13.00

February, 2002
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11934-4
$83.50

"What happens when a distinguished French feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst takes yoga lessons? Irigaray gets some shocks and some good ideas, too. . . . This is a fresh look at the need for East and West to get together, and Irigaray’s notion of a community without gender wars is important." — Library Journal

"[Irigaray's] notion that women breathe differently from men carrie provactive implications, and the book offers a fresh approach to women's empowerment." — Religious Studies Review

"It remains a cause for celebration when a philosopher such as Irigaray not only talks about yoga, but makes it part of her practice." — Ascent Magazine

Related Subjects

• Asian/Islamic Philosophy

Series

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

About the Author

Luce Irigaray, a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, is the leading feminist philosopher in France. She is author of more than twenty books, including Speculum of the Other Woman, This Sex Which Is Not One, The Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Columbia), and The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger.

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