The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common" . . . thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing." —Radical Philosophy |
Contents
the other community | 1 |
the intruder | 15 |
faces idols fetishes | 39 |
the murmur of the world | 69 |
the elemental that faces | 107 |
carrion body carrion utterance | 135 |
community in death | 155 |
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