Breathing with Luce Irigaray

An unusually diverse range of international scholars and practitioners in various fields take up Luce Irigaray's recent work inspired, in part, by her own yoga practice. Without avoiding the difficult questions of essentialism, Orientalism, and white solipsism, they find within this work breathing room, if you will, for engaging significant issues that arise where theory and practice, body, mind and spirit meet. * Ellen Armour, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Vanderbilt University, USA * Skof and Holmes have brought together an international group of scholars to think with, to breath with, Irigaray, on what it means to think and act an ethics of breath. These essays are inspirational and moving. They invite us to think while breathing at a different tempo, more mindfully of our shared life. * Eduardo Mendieta, Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, USA *

Lenart Skof is Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Primorska, Slovenia. Emily A. Holmes is Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Christian Brothers University, USA.

List of Contributors 1. Towards Breathing with Luce Irigaray Lenart Skof & Emily A. Holmes Part I: Spiritual Breathing 2. When Cherubim Touch: The Cleaving Feminine Wing of the Dual-Gendered Cherubim in 2 Chronicles (Divrei Hayammim 3: 11-12) Julie Kelso 3. The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology Emily A. Holmes 4. The Prayers We Breathe: Embodying the Gift of Life in the Maternal Feminine Eleanor Sanderson Part II: Intercultural Breathing 5. Breath of Awakening: Nonduality, breathing and sexual difference Jean Marie Byrne 6. That Tender Discipline: Spacing, Structured Nothingness & Kumbhaka Antonia Pont Part III: Natural Breathing 7. Towards a shared desire for sustainability: Rethinking community starting from different feminine approaches to nature Claudia Bruno 8. Breathing With the Natural World: Irigaray, environmental philosophy, and the alterity of nature Tomaz Grusovnik 9. Breathing with Animals: Irigaray's Contribution to Animal Ethics Sara Stuva Part IV: Contextual Breathing 10. All of My Work is Performance: Irigarayan Methods of Breath for Dance and Voice Shannon Wong Lerner 11. Subjectivity and Sexual Difference: New Figures of the Feminine in Irigaray and Cavarero Diane Perpich 12. Breathing the Political: A meditation on the preservation of life in the midst of war Elisha Foust 13. The Distant ('dis-t?nt) Stillness that is 'Breth Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa Part V: Conclusion 14. To Begin with Breathing Anew Luce Irigaray Bibliography Index