Encounters with Alphonso Lingis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739107003 ISBN 13: 9780739107003

Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2003

Synopsis

Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingiss 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 books first section, the contributors discuss Lingiss 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 Lingiss 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.

About this title

About the Author

David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University, Providence, USA. He is the translator of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche, and was the editor of Heidegger's Basic Writings (1977).

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739107003
• ISBN 13: 9780739107003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Wolfgang W. Fuchs, Alexander E. Hooke