Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality
Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious
| Author: | John Martis | ISBN: | 9781498544009 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | May 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Martis |
| ISBN: | 9781498544009 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | May 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Intervervening in a lively debate in contemporary European philosophy, this book offers a radically revisioned account of the self subjected to experience. Patiently yet vigorously engaging Jean-Luc Marion's reading of selfhood in St Augustine, Martis reaches back deeply into the Western Philosophical tradition to propose a bold solution to the phemomenological problem of how a self can recognise an other, while remiaining itself. Insights from Descartes, Kant, Derrida, Blanchot, Romano and others are brought together to undergird an account of a self that remains itself only in ceaseless loss to necessary incursions of the other: "I Welcome therefore I am."
Intervervening in a lively debate in contemporary European philosophy, this book offers a radically revisioned account of the self subjected to experience. Patiently yet vigorously engaging Jean-Luc Marion's reading of selfhood in St Augustine, Martis reaches back deeply into the Western Philosophical tradition to propose a bold solution to the phemomenological problem of how a self can recognise an other, while remiaining itself. Insights from Descartes, Kant, Derrida, Blanchot, Romano and others are brought together to undergird an account of a self that remains itself only in ceaseless loss to necessary incursions of the other: "I Welcome therefore I am."
