Encounters with Alphonso Lingis

Alexander E. Hooke is Professor of Philosophy at Villa Julie College. He is the editor of Virtuous Persons, Vicious Deeds (1998).Wolfgang W. Fuchs is Professor of Philosophy at Towson State University.

• Part 1 Locating Lingis in Traditions of ThoughtChapter 2 Far from the Pallid FloatChapter 3 Seeing the Named, Naming the Seen: Relations to the TraditionChapter 4 Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions: Interview with Alphonso Lingis, 2002Chapter 5 The Sacred Vision of a Solitary VoyagerChapter 6 Encounter the World, Keep a Clear EyeChapter 7 Silent Communities: Foucault and Lingis on the End of PhilosophyChapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Interview with Alphonso Lingis (1996)Part 9 Departures: Singular and Common RealitiesChapter 10 Limits, Borders, and Shores of SingularityChapter 11 Dream of a Blind SculptressChapter 12 NakedChapter 13 There is Always Another IslandChapter 14 Mapping the Earth OtherwiseChapter 15 Grief Suspended: Lingis, Cavell, EmersonPart 16 The Return HomeChapter 17 Trust

The studies gathered here, written by some of the leading philosophers on both sides of the Atlantic, bear witness to the importance of Alphonso Lingis as one of the most original voices in contemporary American philosophy. For more than three decades he has been jolting American academicians out of their settled ways of thinking and writing with a series of brilliant, provocative, and original studies of phenomena of elemental importance. As the contributors to this volume remind us, Lingis has impressed on us a renewed sense of our impassioned and embodied existence and he has taught an entire generation of American philosophers how to think for themselves while maintaining a dialogue with the great masters of European philosophy.