Encounters with Alphonso LingisAlexander E. Hooke, Wolfgang Walter Fuchs Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their various critical perspectives. They address most of the central themes found in his writings--including singularity and otherness, death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the face, excess and the sacred. In the book's first section, the contributors discuss Lingis's significance as a contemporary philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and phenomenological thinkers of the past century. In the second section, they focus on Lingis's ideas as the basis for inquiries into additional fields, such as art, literature, cultural studies, and politics. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself. |
Contents
LOCATING LINGIS IN TRADITIONS OF THOUGHT | 1 |
Far from the Pallid Float | 3 |
Seeing the Named Naming the Seen Relations to the Tradition | 19 |
Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions Interview with Alphonso Lingis 2002 | 35 |
The Sacred Vision of a Solitary Voyager | 43 |
Encounter the World Keep a Clear Eye | 51 |
Silent Communities Foucault and Lingis on the End of Philosophy | 63 |
Foreign Bodies Interview with Alphonso Lingis 1996 | 83 |
Chapter Ten Naked | 119 |
There Is Always Another Island | 133 |
Mapping the Earth Otherwise | 147 |
Grief Suspended Lingis Cavell Emerson | 165 |
THE RETURN HOME | 173 |
Trust | 175 |
Bibliography | 187 |
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DEPARTURES SINGULAR AND COMMON REALITIES | 99 |
Limits Borders and Shores of Singularity | 101 |
Dream of a Blind Sculptress | 109 |
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