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Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of
this American philosopher who is gaining an international
reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already
been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from
many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh
philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished
contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with
this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their
various critical perspectives. They address most of the central
themes found in his writings including singularity and otherness,
death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the
face, excess and the sacred. In the book's first section, the
contributors discuss Lingis's significance as a contemporary
philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as
Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and
phenomenological thinkers of the past century. In the second
section, they focus on Lingis's ideas as the basis for inquiries
into additional fields, such as art, literature, cultural studies,
and politics. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself."
Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of
this American philosopher who is gaining an international
reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already
been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from
many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh
philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished
contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with
this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their
various critical perspectives. They address most of the central
themes found in his writings including singularity and otherness,
death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the
face, excess and the sacred. In the book's first section, the
contributors discuss Lingis's significance as a contemporary
philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as
Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and
phenomenological thinkers of the past century. In the second
section, they focus on Lingis's ideas as the basis for inquiries
into additional fields, such as art, literature, cultural studies,
and politics. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself."
Traces the interior, evolutionary movement of biblical moments and
movements of Genesis, Exodus, Judgement, Incarnation and Apocalypse
by meditating on speech and silence in the biblical text of the Old
Testament, or Torah. This profoundly moving meditation by a
Christian dialectical theologian finds a home in the classical
academic literature of Judaism, by virtue of the author's emphasis
on the search for words to express man's encounter with the living
God. Jacob Neusner, Series Editor, in his new preface, states that,
"Judaism in the Torah claims to possess these words." He considers
Altizer's work to be a continuation of the legacy of Abraham Joshua
Heschel. Originally published by Harper & Row in 1977, this
edition contains a new introduction by the author.
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