The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger

by Luce Irigaray

Book Overview

French philosopher Luce Irigaray has become one of the twentieth century's most influential feminist thinkers. Among her many writings are three books (with a projected fourth) in which she challenges the Western tradition's construals of human beings' relations to the four elements--earth, air, fire, and water--and to nature. In answer to Heidegger's undoing of Western metaphysics as a "forgetting of Being," Irigaray seeks in this work to begin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292738722
• ISBN13: 9780292738720
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"