Truth and Singularity

Rudi Visker

ISBN 10: 0792359852 / ISBN 13: 9780792359852

Published by Springer Netherlands Okt 1999, 1999

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The aim of these essays is to disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in recent contemporary philosophy have been caught. This volume shows that what is in fact returning in these discussions and maneuvering them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity, `the subject', which they seek to repress. 428 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Truth and Singularity
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands Okt 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792359852
• ISBN 13: 9780792359852
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 28D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 805 grams

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Synopsis

THE PART OF THE SUBJECT At the origin of these essays, an increasing weariness produced by all those attempts to oppose what came to be known as Foucault's 'post­ structuralism' to phenomenology - as if the two were incompatible and as if one could only proceed with thought after having chosen sides. And an equal reluctance to join those who pretended they could carryon as they had before since, quite obviously, there were no sides to choose, 'Foucault' being but the latest example of a relativism that one could easily ignore since it had, like all relativism, already refuted itself by daring to speak. And, finally, behind that weariness and that reluctance, a suspicion that what these two reactions to 'Foucault' had in common was a refusal to go 'toward the things themselves' and thus a refusal to approach the texts that we refer to by that proper name as we would approach other phenomena: not as the body-object of a thought that we would have to locate as coming either 'before' or 'after' phenomenology, but as a series of statements that appear to us in a certain way and whose appearing reveals to us something about our own, finite being.

Review

"Truth and Singularity is an outstanding philosophical exercise into the ethics of intersubjectivity that is conducted in a "baroque fashion" (p.20) Visker's manifold interpretations are thought provoking and prone to generate further excursions into ontology and ethics."
(The Review of Metaphysics, November 2002)