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Hiddenness and alterity : philosophical and literary sightings of the unseen /

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"Using resources of phenomenology to examine how we are able to engage in self-concealment, Mensch presents a unified theory of the role of the other in our relations to the world"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mensch, James R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Self (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Phenomenology.
Ethics.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Temporalization as the trace of the subject
  • The alterity of time
  • Logic and alterity
  • Imagination and others
  • Givenness and alterity
  • Selfhood and politics
  • Shame and guilt
  • Benito Cerino : Freud and the breakdown of politics
  • Literature and evil
  • Rescue and the face to face
  • Abraham and Isaac : a question of theodicy
  • What should we pray for?
  • Metaphysics and alterity.