Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition - Couverture souple

Livre 157 sur 213: Cultural Memory in the Present

Sebbah, François-David

 
9780804772754: Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
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ISBN 10 : 0804772754 ISBN 13 : 9780804772754
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

François-David Sebbah is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Compiègne in France and was Program Director at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. He is the author of Levinas: Ambiguïtés de l'altérité (2000).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804772754
ISBN 13 
9780804772754
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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ISBN 10 :  0804772746 ISBN 13 :  9780804772747
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2012
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