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