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The body postured and dissoluteIn Véronique Marion Fóti (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: difference, materiality, painting, Humanities Press. pp. 60--71. 1996.
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67Contact: Tact and CaressJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 38 (1): 1-6. 2007.Through words and gestures we communicate with one another about the outlying environment, and we also form representations of one another. But we also make contact with one another. Through tact we make contact with the anxieties, rage, shame, shyness, and secrecy of another. In caresses we make contact with the pleasure of the other. Our caresses are moved by the other, by the spasms of torment and pleasure in the other
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ImperativesIn Martin C. Dillon (ed.), Merleau-Ponty Vivant: The History of Albany's Rapp Road Community, State University of New York Press. pp. 91--116. 1991.
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58SubjectificationContinental Philosophy Review 40 (2): 113-123. 2007.For Martin Heidegger the death that comes singularly for each of us summons us to exist on our own and speak in our own name. But Gilles Delueze and Félix Guattari argue that it is a specific social machinery that summons us to speak in our own name and answer for what we do and are. This summons is a death sentence. They enjoin us to flee this subjectification, this subjection. They do recognize that the release of becomings in all directions can become destructive and self-destructive. There a…Read more
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50Beauty and LustJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 27 (2): 174-192. 1996.Why does lust demand beauty? How does it differ from functional beauty and from the beauty of what is purposive without definable purpose? Does eroticism really aim at visions of immortality ? How does erotic craving differ from the cognitive or practical intentions that aim at objects or objectives ? What is the difference between sexual satisfaction and the erotic transport ? Is erotic passion really a craving for the quiescence of the inert? What is erotic glamour in women and in men ? What k…Read more
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38Fantasy Space, Private Myths, VisionsJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 30 (2): 94-108. 1999.Slavoj Žižek proposed an ethic of respect for the fantasy space of another. Under "fantasy" Jacques Lacan borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss the notion of a "private myth." But this fantasy is, Žižek says, illusionary, fragile, and helpless. Fantasy is the way everyone, each in a particular way, conceals the impasse of his desire. Psychoanalytic practice can be criticized as a radical destitution of the fundamental fantasy of the patient. The author argues that what Žižek analyzes as fantasy is a…Read more
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9The first person singularNorthwestern University Press. 2007.Alphonso Lingis’s singular works of philosophy are not so much written as performed, and in The First Person Singular the performance is characteristically brilliant, a consummate act of philosophical reckoning. Lingis’s subject here, aptly enough, is the subject itself, understood not as consciousness but as embodied, impassioned, active being. His book is, at the same time, an elegant cultural analysis of how subjectivity is differently and collectively understood, invested, and situated. The …Read more
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Deathbound Subjectivity, coll. « Studies in Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 180 (2): 465-465. 1990.
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3The society of dismembered body partsIn Constantin V. Boundas & Dorothea Olkowski (eds.), Gilles Deleuze and the theater of philosophy, Routledge. pp. 289--303. 1994.
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Language and PersecutionIn Paul Patton & John Protevi (eds.), Between Deleuze and Derrida, Continuum. pp. 169--82. 2003.
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13The Difficulties of a Phenomenological Investigation of LanguageModern Schoolman 57 (1): 56-64. 1979.
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12Dangerous EmotionsUniv of California Press. 2000."Dangerous Emotions is a sustained philosophical, phenomenological, and personal series of reflections on the role of passions and emotions, visceral responses, and human reactions which bypass and surpass the role of reason. Lingis has a unique perspective, a position already well fortified in many texts he has published, whereby he blends elements of philosophical texts (most notably Heidegger, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas, and Neitzsche) with strange and intense experiences from everyday lif…Read more
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ContactJanus Head 8 (2). 2005.When someone there is standing before us, we have been cautioned that he is not speaking with his own voice but speaking the language of his gender, his family, his class, his education, his culture, his economic and political interests, his unconscious drives, indeed his state of physical health and alertness. Are we then doing no more than interpreting what he says and does? Do we ever make contact with what he means for himself when he says “I”—with his visions, the story he tells himself of …Read more
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9Return of the First-Person Singular: The Science of Subjectivity and the SciencesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 163-174. 2012.
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3A Time to Exist on One's OwnIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Self and the Other, . pp. 31-40. 1977.
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Philosophy of Mind |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |