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Phenomenology in middle age

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  1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty,The Visible and the Invisible (Alphonso Lingis, trans.). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968, pp. 148–49.

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  2. Martin Heidegger,The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (William Lovitt, trans.). New York: Harper & Row, 1977, p. 32.

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  3. “I had already grown a pot. I am a solidly entrenched, reasonably successful petty bourgeois, academic variety—and I like it. There is no doubt that this is part of the source of my affection for the middle extreme, but I wondered whether that life style might have values apart from the fact that it happens to be the mode in which I have achieved a satisfactory degree of comfort” (p. 28).

  4. He identifies himself as a second rate intellectual (p. 153), a consumer of things scientific (p. 124), who is hostile to Oriental modes of being out of having been reared in the tradition of Christianity (p. 64) and whose greatest single skill is quitting (p. 155); he says he is 20 pounds overweight (p. 40), addicted to cigarettes (p. 40), has the habit of continually grinding his teeth (p. 34), is given to a growing hypochondria (p. 74), and for him “twenty-four hours without a martini is unthinkable (p. 105); indeed, “to sit down at the end of a day in my big chair with a martini and an hour or so of the same stretched before me is as close to eternal peace as I can imagine ever being” (p. 155).

  5. Pages 28, 65, 69, and 153.

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    Alphonso Lingis

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Lingis, A. Phenomenology in middle age. Hum Stud 2, 77–85 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02127217

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