Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition

François-David Sebbah

Published by Stanford University Press 2012

Testing the Limit

Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition

François-David Sebbah
Translated by: Stephen Barker

In the series Cultural Memory in the Present

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804782005

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About this book

Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.

Author / Editor information

François-David Sebbah is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Compiègne in France and was Program Director at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. He is the author of Levinas: Ambiguïtés de l'altérité (2000).

Reviews

Jeffrey Hanson:
"Sebbah's noteworthy book is perhaps the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between three thinkers in the French phenomenological tradition, two of whom are well known in the Anglophone world (Levinas, Derrida) and one of whom (Henry) is gradually better understood by English-speaking audiences. That all three are arrayed together in this study makes it a pioneering enterprise and one that allows the English reader to apprise the worthiness of Henry's association with his better-known compatriots."

Christina Gschwandtner:
"Convincing and well executed. A wide range of texts and thinkers is treated with evident familiarity and thought. . . This book makes an important contribution to the larger debate about the contemporary status and trajectory of phenomenology."

"François Sebbah, who practices phenomenology above all through a testing of readings—readings that jostle each other—uses phenomenology to experience limits that he neither denounces nor overcomes. Rather, he plunges in headfirst, engulfing himself so as to better draw on that experience, an a-theological baptism of sorts."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Toward a Critique of Phenomenological Rationality
1. Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Intentionality and Non-Givenness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. The Question of the Limit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Part II: The Frontier of Time
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
1. At the Limits of Intentionality: Michel Henry and Emmanuel Levinas as Readers of On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
2. Anticipating Phenomenology: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, the Impossible and Possibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Part III: The Test of Subjectivity
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
1. Subjectivity in Contemporary French Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
2. The Birth of Subjectivity in Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
3. Born to Life, Born to Oneself: The Birth of Subjectivity in Michel Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
4. Spectral Subjectivity According to Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Part IV: Phenomenological Discourse and Subjectification
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
1. The Rhythm of Otherwise Than Being According to Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
2. The Rhythm of Life According to Michel Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Cultural Memory in the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: May 9, 2012
ISBN: 9780804782005