Testing the Limit Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
| Author/creator | Sebbah, François-David Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Palo Alto : Stanford University Press Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] |
| Description | 336 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit,Testing the Limitclaims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgressor hover around and therefore withinthe threshold of phenomenologial discourse? This is the first book to include Michel Henry in a triangulation with Derrida and Levinas and the first to critique Levinas on the basis of his interpolation of philosophy and religion. Sebbah claims that the textual origins of phenomenology determine, in their temporal rhythms, the nature of the subjectivation on which they focus. He situates these considerations within the broader picture of the state of contemporary French phenomenology (chiefly the legacy of Merleau-Ponty), in order to show that these three thinkers share a certain "family resemblance," the identification of which reveals something about the traces of other phenomenological families. It is by testing the limit within the context of traditional phenomenological concerns about the appearance of subjectivity and ipseity that Derrida, Henry, and Levinas radically reconsider phenomenology and that French phenomenology assumes its present form. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011032773 |
| ISBN | 9780804772747 |
| ISBN | 0804772746 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780804772747 |
| Stock number | 00025048 |
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