In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis
brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight
of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself.
Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, religion, and
science, Lingis seeks to uncover what in our reality escapes our
attempts at measuring and categorizing. Writing as much from his
own experiences and those of others as from his longstanding
engagement with phenomenology and existentialism, Irrevocable
studies the world in which shadows, reflections, halos, and
reverberations count as much as the carpentry of things. Whether
describing religious art and ritual, suffering, war and disease,
the pleasures of love, the wonders of nature, archaeological
findings, surfing, volcanoes, or jellyfish, Lingis writes with
equal measures of rigor and abandon about the vicissitudes of our
practices and beliefs. Knowing that birth, the essential encounters
in our lives, crippling diseases and accidents, and even death are
all determined by chance, how do we recognize and understand such
chance? After facing tragedies, what makes it possible to live on
while recognizing our irrevocable losses? Lingis's investigations
are accompanied by his own vivid photographs from around the world.
Balancing the local and the global, and ranging across vast
expanses of culture and time, Irrevocable sounds the depths of both
our passions and our impassioned bodies and minds.
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