The Life of Breath in Literature Culture and Medicine
Editorial: Springer Nature
Licencia: Creative Commons (by-nc-nd)
Autor(es): Fuller, David; [et al.]
The Age of the Breath: in the view of the philosopher Luce Irigaray, this characterises the late twentieth century and beyond.1 Irigaray's idea is a variation of the threefold scheme of Christian history of the medieval
theologian Joachim da Fiore: the Age of the Father (the Old Testament, the Law), the Age of the Son (the New Testament, freedom from the Law), and the Age of the Spirit (a utopian age of universal love). Like the Age of the Spirit, Irigaray's ‘Age of the Breath' potentially transcends major limitations of history, specifically on issues of gender and all that follows from differently conceived relations between men and women. Breath is central to this in her reworking of a major philosophical predecessor, Martin Heidegger.2 Heidegger is admired: he thought radically, working not only from what had already been thought but attempting to see nakedly from the bases of thinking. Irigaray's critique is not of Heidegger himself, but of Heidegger as representative of even the best in the tradition of Western philosophy, limited by its unrecognised assumption of the thinking subject as male.
[Durham: 2021]
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