Trust is inherent in travel. We ask a stranger for directions, or
for a ride. We live among people whose language, culture, and
motivations we don't understand. Trust binds us to another with an
intoxicating energy; it is brave, giddy, joyous, and lustful. A
sudden attraction careens into sexual surrender, and trust becomes
unconditional. Trust laughs at danger and leaps into the unknown.
The author of Abuses and Foreign Bodies, Alphonso Lingis has
traveled the globe for many years, and in Trust he reflects on
journeys from Latin America to Asia to Antarctica. Whether feeding
chocolate sauce and tuna to the baboons who visit his campsite in
Ethiopia, celebrating the millennial New Year in Mongolia, or
indulging in a passionate love affair in Vietnam, Lingis evaluates
what happens around him and how it affects him and others. From
these experiences he gains new understandings about spirituality,
masculinity, love, death, ecstasy, and change.
In the tradition of such international travelers as Paul
Theroux, Pico Iyer, and Ryszard Kapuscinski, and with insight
reminiscent of John Berger and Joan Didion, Lingis shares both the
private revelations and the universal connections he acquires on
his exotic journeys. "Travel far enough," he concludes, "and we
find ourselves happily back in the infantile world"-where trust is
ultimate.
Alphonso Lingis is author of The Community of Those Who Have
Nothing in Common, Dangerous Emotions, Abuses, and Foreign Bodies.
He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Pennsylvania State
University.
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