A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique
blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy Alphonso
Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the
past fifty years—a scholar of transience, someone who has visited
and revisited more than one hundred countries and has woven this
itinerary into his writing and allowed it to give form to his
thinking. This book assembles a representative selection of
Lingis’s work to give readers a thorough sense of his methodology
and vision, the diversity of his subject matter, and the unity of
his thought. Lingis’s writing evinces the many kinds of knowledge
and subtle forces circulating through human communities and their
environments. His unique style blends travel writing, cultural
anthropology, and personal accounts of his innumerable experiences
as an active participant in the adventures and relationships that
fill his life. Drawing from countless articles, essays, and
interviews published over fifty years, editor Tom Sparrow chose
works that follow Lingis’s engaging, often intimate reflections
on the body in motion and the myriad influences—social, cultural,
aesthetic, libidinal, physical, mythological—that shape and
animate it as it moves through the world, among people and places
both foreign and domestic, familiar and unknown. In a substantial
Introduction, Sparrow provides a biographical, critical,
intellectual, and cultural context for reading and appreciating
Alphonso Lingis’s work. An extended encounter with the singular
philosopher, The Alphonso Lingis Reader conducts us through
Lingis’s early writing on phenomenology to his hybrid studies
fusing philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, communication
theory, aesthetics, and other disciplines, to his original,
inspired arguments about everything from knowledge to laughter to
death.
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