Truth and singularity : taking Foucault into phenomenology /
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 manoeu...
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic,
[1999]
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| Series: | Phaenomenologica ;
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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.