By Cathryn Vasseleu
Textures of Light attracts at the paintings of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to give an exceptional and floor breaking learn of the important significance of sunshine in Western proposal. given that Plato's allegory of the cave, mild and the position of sight were accorded a distinct place in Western inspiration. they've got stood as a metaphor for fact and objectivity and the very axis of recent rationalism. extra lately in spite of the fact that, this prestige has come less than major feedback from continental and feminist idea which has under pressure the privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in this kind of metaphor.
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