Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of
central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most
passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. A
gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces
experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's book offers no less
than a new approach to philosophy-aesthetic and sympathetic-which
departs from the phenomenology of Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. "These
were letters written to friends," Lingis writes, "from places I
found myself for months at a time, about encounters that moved me
and troubled me. . . . These writings also became no longer my
letters. I found myself only trying to speak for others, others
greeted only with passionate kisses of parting." Ranging from the
elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the living rooms of the
Mexican elite, to the streets of Manila, Lingis recounts incidents
of state-sponsored violence and the progressive incorporation of
third-world peoples into the circuits of exchange of international
capitalism. Recalling the work of such writers as Graham Greene,
Kathy Acker, and Georges Bataille, Abuses contains impassioned
accounts of silence, eros and identity, torture and war, the
sublime, lust and joy, and human rituals surrounding carnival and
death that occurred during his journeys to India, Bangladesh,
Thailand, Bali, the Philippines, Antarctica, and Latin America. A
deeply unsettling book by a philosopher of unusual imagination,
Abuses will appeal to readers who, like its author, "may want the
enigmas and want the discomfiture within oneself." This title is
part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1994.
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