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By Alexander E. Hooke,Wolfgang W. Fuchs,Thomas J. Altizer,Edward Casey,Thomas L. Dumm,Elizabeth Grosz Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Duke University USA,David Karnos,David Farrell Krell,Alphonso Lingis,Ger

Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the 1st large examine of this American thinker who's gaining a global attractiveness to enhance his nationwide one. Lingis's books have already been translated into approximately a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are discovering his works a resource for clean philosophical and scholarly inquiries. the prestigious members to this quantity think of their very own encounters with this distinct American philosopher as they have interaction his paintings from their quite a few serious views. They handle lots of the critical topics present in his writings—including singularity and otherness, dying and eroticism, feelings and rationality, embodiment and the face, extra and the sacred. within the book's first part, the participants talk about Lingis's value as a modern thinker, rather in regards to such popular figures as Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the main existential and phenomenological thinkers of the previous century. within the moment part, they specialise in Lingis's principles because the foundation for inquiries into extra fields, resembling paintings, literature, cultural experiences, and politics. The publication closes with a brand new essay via Lingis himself.

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