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The Fall of Sleep (Hardcover, New)
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The Fall of Sleep (Hardcover, New)
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Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless
negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the
production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an
extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric
intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by
providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What does it
mean to "fall" asleep? Might there exist something like a "reason"
of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality
of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking
"self" that distinguishes "I" from "you" and from the world? What
reason might exist in that absence of ego, appearance, and
intention, in an abandon thanks to which one is emptied out into a
non-place shared by everyone? Sleep attests to something like an
equality of all that exists in the rhythm of the world. With sleep,
victory is constantly renewed over the fear of night, an a
confidence that we will wake with the return of day, in a return to
self, to us--though to a self, an us, that is each day different,
unforeseen, without any warning given in advance. To seek anew the
meaning stirring in the supposed loss of meaning, of consciousness,
and of control that occurs in sleep is not to reclaim some meaning
already familiar in philosophy, religion, progressivism, or any
other -ism. It is instead to open anew a source that is not the
source of a meaning but that makes up the nature proper to meaning,
its truth: opening, gushing forth, infinity. This beautiful,
profound meditation on sleep is a unique work in the history of
phenomenology--a lyrical phenomenology of what can have no
phenomenology, since sleep shows itself to the waking observer, the
subject of phenomenology, only as disappearance and concealment.
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