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Testing the Limit - Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,708
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Testing the Limit - Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Hardcover, New): François-David Sebbah

Testing the Limit - Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition (Hardcover, New)

François-David Sebbah; Translated by Stephen Barker

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

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In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims 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 transgress—or hover around and therefore within—the 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.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date: May 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: François-David Sebbah
Translators: Stephen Barker
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth
Pages: 336
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-7274-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN: 0-8047-7274-6
Barcode: 9780804772747

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