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The aim of these essays is to disentangle the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many debates in 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 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 access and from which it cannot rid itself, because it is that to which it owes its singularity.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: the Part of the Subject.- I. Truth and Finitude.- 1. Heidegger’s 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 Silent‘after’Levinas.- 6. Uneuropean Desires. Toward a Provincialism without Romanticism.- 7. The Untouchable. Merleau-Ponty’s Last Subject.- 8. A Western Problem? Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity.- III. The Loneliness of a Subject Unable to Disappear.- 9. No Privacy? Levinas’s Intrigue of the Infinite.- 10. Can Only a ‘Yes’ Save Us Now? Anti-Racism’s First Word in Derrida and Levinas.- 11. The Gaze of the Big Other. Levinas and Sartre on Racism.- 12. Losing Face. Richard Rorty’s Last Words.- Conclusion: Still Otherwise…? Between Foucault and Levinas.- Acknowledgements.

Review :
"Truth and Singularity is an outstanding philosophical exercise into the ethics of intersubjectivity that is conducted in a "baroque fashion" (p.20) Visker's manifold interpretations are thought provoking and prone to generate further excursions into ontology and ethics." (The Review of Metaphysics, November 2002)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780792359852
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 412
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Taking Foucault into Phenomenology
  • ISBN-10: 0792359852
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 155 Phaenomenologica
  • Width: 170 mm


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