The implications of immanence : toward a new concept of life / Leonard Lawlor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 56.

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Immanence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland, Ohio : Fordham University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leonard Lawlor develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of 'bio-power,' which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms 'bare life', mere biological existence. He provides conceptual tools for intervening in issues such as the AIDS epidemic & life-support for the infirm.

Contents:

Introduction: signs

Verstellung ("misplacement") : completions of immanence

With my hand over my heart, looking you right in the eyes, I promise myself to you : reflections on Derrida's interpretation of Husserl

"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revelation" : from the deconstruction of metaphysics to the deconstruction of Christianity in Derrida

Eschatology and positivism : the critique of phenomenology in Derrida and Foucault

Un ecart infime (part I) : Foucault's critique of the concept of lived-experience (vecu)

Un ecart infime (part II) : Merleau-Ponty's "mixturism"

Noli me tangere : a fragment on vision in Merleau-Ponty

Un ecart infime (part III) : the blind spot in Foucault

"This is what we must not do" : the question of death in Merleau-Ponty

Metaphysics and powerlessness : an introduction to the concept of life-ism

Conclusion: the followers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823235742

0823235742

9780823247981

0823247988

9780823226559

0823226557

9781429479080

1429479086

OCLC:

216947377

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08549 hdl