Truth and Singularity: Taking Foucault into Phenomenology

✍ Scribed by Rudi Visker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Series: Phaenomenologica 155
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

THE PART OF THE SUBJECT At the origin of these essays, an increasing weariness produced by all those attempts to oppose what came to be known as Foucault's 'post­ structuralism' to phenomenology - as if the two were incompatible and as if one could only proceed with thought after having chosen sides. And an equal reluctance to join those who pretended they could carryon as they had before since, quite obviously, there were no sides to choose, 'Foucault' being but the latest example of a relativism that one could easily ignore since it had, like all relativism, already refuted itself by daring to speak. And, finally, behind that weariness and that reluctance, a suspicion that what these two reactions to 'Foucault' had in common was a refusal to go 'toward the things themselves' and thus a refusal to approach the texts that we refer to by that proper name as we would approach other phenomena: not as the body-object of a thought that we would have to locate as coming either 'before' or 'after' phenomenology, but as a series of statements that appear to us in a certain way and whose appearing reveals to us something about our own, finite being.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction The Part of the Subject....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Heidegger’s Cave Being and Time on Disappearing Existentials....Pages 23-46
From Foucault to Heidegger a One-Way Ticket?....Pages 47-72
Meaning and Validity Habermas on Heidegger and Foucault....Pages 73-90
Raw Being and Violent Discourse Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and the (Dis-)Order of Things....Pages 91-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Dis-Possessed How to Remain Silent ‘After’ Levinas....Pages 115-143
Uneuropean Desires Toward a Provincialism without Romanticism....Pages 144-164
The Untouchable Merleau-Ponty’s Last Subject....Pages 165-200
A Western Problem? Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity....Pages 201-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
No Privacy? Levinas’s Intrigue of the Infinite....Pages 235-273
Can Only a ‘Yes’ Save Us Now? Anti-Racism’s First Word in Derrida and Levinas....Pages 274-325
The Gaze of the Big Other Levinas and Sartre on Racism....Pages 326-356
Losing Face Richard Rorty’s Last Words....Pages 357-374
Conclusion Still Otherwise.? Between Foucault and Levinas....Pages 375-397
Back Matter....Pages 398-412

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Ontology; Ethics; Philosophy of Man; Modern Philosophy