Testing the Limit Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition

Name: Testing the Limit Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
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ISBN: 9780804772754

ISBN-10: 0804772754

ISBN-13: 9780804772754

Edition: 2012

Authors: Franï¿½ois-David Sebbah, Stephen Barker

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In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit,Testing the Limitclaims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgress—or hover around and therefore within—the threshold of phenomenologial discourse? This is the first book to include Michel Henry in a triangulation with Derrida and Levinas and the first to critique Levinas on the basis of his interpolation of philosophy and religion. Sebbah claims that the textual origins of phenomenology determine, in their temporal rhythms, the nature of the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Toward a Critique of Phenomenological Rationality



Research



Intentionality and Non-Givenness



The Question of the Limit



The Frontier of Time



At the Limits of Intentionality: Michel Henry and Emmanuel Levinas as Readers of On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time



Anticipating Phenomenology: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, the Impossible and Possibility



The Time of Ordinary Phenomena and Phantoms (Jean-Toussaint Desanti; Jacques Derrida)



The Impossibility of the Gift: Within the Extreme Possibility of Givenness (Jacques Derrida; Jean-Luc Marion)



The Test of Subjectivity



Subjectivity in Contemporary French Phenomenology



The Birth of Subjectivity in Levinas



Born to Life, Born to Oneself: The Birth of Subjectivity in Michel Henry



Spectral Subjectivity According to Jacques Derrida



Phenomenological Discourse and Subjectification



The Rhythm of Otherwise Than Being According to Levinas



Reading Levinas and Thinking Entirely Otherwise



Rhythm as the Question of Intentionality in Levinas



The Rhythm of Life According to Michel Henry


Conclusion


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography