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Description :
In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, religion, and science, Lingis seeks to uncover what in our reality escapes our attempts at measuring and categorizing. Writing as much from his own experiences and those of others as from his longstanding engagement with phenomenology and existentialism, Irrevocable studies the world in which shadows, reflections, halos, and reverberations count as much as the carpentry of things.
Alphonso Lingis is professor of philosophy emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books, including Dangerous Emotions, Contact, and Violence and Splendor.
Content :
Part I : Outside
Outside
The Weight of Reality
Doubles
Shadows
Part II : Chance
Cause, Choice, Chance
Part III : Passions
The Altiplano
Return of the First Person Singular
Aconcagua
Seduction
Truthfulness
Part IV : Belief
The Stone Axe
Angels with Guns
Belief
Performance
Voyage
Part V : Justice
The Future of Torture
Justice
The System
Truth in Reconciliation
Part VI : Irrevocable
The Babies in Trees
Mortality
Dignity
Irrevocable Loss
Part VII : Gratitude
Gratitude
Appendix: Philosophy’s Tasks
Notes
About the Photographs
Index No Related Books No other Books by the same author | |
AARON CHATTERJI
