The Community Of Those Who Have Nothing In Common (studies In Continental Thought)

Is there not a growing conviction today that the dying of people with whom we have no racial kinship, no language, no religion, no economic interests in common concerns us? Alphonso Lingis takes as his point of departure the mortality that unites all people, even those who seemingly have nothing else in common. Lingis' provocative essays illuminate the community we construct with those who have no truth to offer us, with the dying as they leave us, even with creatures that have no species kinship with us. "The Intruder" reveals that what concerns us in the other is precisely his or her otherness, which both appeals to us and contests us face to face. "Faces, Idols, Fetishes" explains how real values are not what people have in common but what individualizes them and makes them other. In "The Murmur of the World", language is seen not simply as a code that humans have established by convention but as a phenomenon arising from the murmur of nature, the way we communicate not only with human decoders but with nature itself. "The Elemental That Faces" considers situations in which the content of speech is of little importance, the times when what is essential is our presence and the act of speaking. "Carrion Body, Carrion Utterance" denounces a specific type of torture: when victims are forced to denounce all their beliefs as a lie, to state that they are incapable of truth. "Community in Death" enunciates the community of all the living with those who are dying. Articulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, "The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common" launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. Here, Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency

" . . . thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing." —Radical Philosophy

" . . . striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophic originality which it contributes to questions of community and (its) communication." —Research in Phenomenology

Articulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, Alphonso Lingis launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. Here Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency.

"... thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis’s work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing." —Radical Philosophy

"... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophic originality which it contributes to questions of community and (its) communication." —Research in Phenomenology

Articulating the author’s journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, Alphonso Lingis launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. Here Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency.

"" ... Thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above all #x9D;touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing.""--Radical Philosophy"" ... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophic originality which it contributes to questions of community and (its) communication.""--Research in PhenomenologyArticulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, Alphonso Lingis Is there not a growing conviction that the dying of people with whom we have no racial kinship, no language, no religion, no economic interests in common concerns us? This work takes as its point of departure the mortality that unites all people, even those who seemingly have nothing else in common. Explains how real values are not what people have in common but what individualizes them and makes them other. Articulating the author's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continental thought, this work launches a critique, pointing up the myopia of Western rationalism. The Other Community -- The Intruder -- Faces, Idols, Fetishes -- The Murmur Of The World -- The Elemental That Faces -- Carrion Body Carrion Utterance -- Community In Death. Alphonso Lingis. Includes Bibliographical References.