Testing the limit : Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and phenomenology / Francois-David Sebbah ; translated by Stephen Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sebbah, François-David.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Standardized Title:

Epreuve de la limite. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Henry, Michel, 1922-2002.

Henry, Michel.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims 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 religio

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Toward a Critique of Phenomenological Rationality; 1. Research; 2. Intentionality and Non-Givenness; 3. The Question of the Limit; Part II: The Frontier of Time; 1. At the Limits of Intentionality: Michel Henry and Emmanuel Levinas as Readers of On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time; 2. Anticipating Phenomenology: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, the Impossible and Possibility; Part III: The Test of Subjectivity; 1. Subjectivity in Contemporary French Phenomenology; 2. The Birth of Subjectivity in Levinas

3. Born to Life, Born to Oneself: The Birth of Subjectivity in Michel Henry4. Spectral Subjectivity According to Jacques Derrida; Part IV: Phenomenological Discourse and Subjectification; 1. The Rhythm of Otherwise Than Being According to Levinas; 2. The Rhythm of Life According to Michel Henry; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography

Notes:

"Originally published in French under the title L'Epreuve de la limite."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804782005

0804782008

OCLC:

779828677