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  title info:
    title: Truth and singularity
    sub title: taking Foucault into phenomenology
  name:
    name part: Visker, Rudi
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 407 pages)
  abstract: The aim of these essays is to disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in recent contemporary philosophy have found themselves caught. Unsurprisingly so, for, as this volume shows, what is in fact returning in these discussions and manoeuvring them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity which they seek to repress. The name of that ambiguity is, of course, the subject', but a subject whose finitude seems to have left it with a burden which it did not wait for philosophy to take over. Racism, ethnocentrism and multiculturalism owe their dynamics to a tension at the heart of the subjectivity of a subject which not only lost its place at the centre, but also found its place outside of that centre to be less than comfortable. As the collision between phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas) and post-structuralism (Foucault, Lacan, Derrida) enacted in this volume forces one to conclude, such a decentred subject is all but dead. It is attached to 'something' to which it does not find access and from which it cannot rid itself, because it is that to which it owes its singularity. The inflation of particularisms in our contemporary societies betrays an attempt to appropriate that something' and thus to provide man with the roots he misses. But no less one-sided are the attempts of those who in response to this try to locate man's 'deepest essence' (Levinas) in an uprootedness 'beyond' or 'before' any such rootedness. Particularism and its critics are each in their own way recentring a decentred subjectivity characterized for one and the same reason by both 'too many' and 'too few' roots. Such is human dignity: what makes us irreplaceable is at once that from which we suffer and would like to be relieved of. It is that metaphysical unrest in man which obliquely manifests itself in the problem of 'difference' with which our societies find themselves confronted and in which they conspicuously ca…
  table of contents: Introduction: the Part of the Subject -- I. Truth and Finitude -- 1. Heideggers Cave. Being and Time on Disappearing Existentials -- 2. From Foucault to Heidegger. A One-Way Ticket? -- 3. Meaning and Validity. Habermas on Heidegger and Foucault -- 4. Raw Being and Violent Discourse. Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and the (Dis-)order of Things -- II. A Silence Which Escapes Intersubjectivity -- 5. Dis-possessed. How to Remain SilentafterLevinas -- 6. Uneuropean Desires. Toward a Provincialism without Romanticism -- 7. The Untouchable. Merleau-Pontys Last Subject -- 8. A Western Problem? Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity -- III. The Loneliness of a Subject Unable to Disappear -- 9. No Privacy? Levinass Intrigue of the Infinite -- 10. Can Only a Yes Save Us Now? Anti-Racisms First Word in Derrida and Levinas -- 11. The Gaze of the Big Other. Levinas and Sartre on Racism -- 12. Losing Face. Richard Rortys Last Words -- Conclusion: Still Otherwise? Between Foucault and Levinas -- Acknowledgements.
  note: Rudi Visker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Foucault, Michel
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Heidegger, Martin
      name part: 1889-1976
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
      name part: 1908-1961
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lévinas, Emmanuel
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Foucault, Michel
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Foucault, Michel
      name part: (1926-1984)
    topic: Contribution à la phénoménologie
  subject:
    topic: Truth
  subject:
    topic: Intersubjectivity
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivity
  subject:
    topic: Vérité
  subject:
    topic: Intersubjectivité
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivité
  subject:
    topic: Phénoménologie
  subject:
    topic: Racisme
  subject:
    topic: Fenomenologie
  subject:
    topic: Phänomenologie
  subject:
    topic: Vérité
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivité
  subject:
    topic: Intersubjectivité
  subject:
    topic: Intersubjectivity
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivity
  subject:
    topic: Truth
  classification: BD171 .V57 1999eb
  classification: 142/.7
  classification: 08.25
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    record creation date: 140711
    record change date: 20260422173514.3
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng