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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451622003321

Autore

Lawlor Leonard <1954->

Titolo

The implications of immanence [[electronic resource] ] : toward a new concept of life / / Leonard Lawlor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ashland, Ohio, : Fordham University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2006

ISBN

0-8232-3574-2

0-8232-4798-8

0-8232-2655-7

1-4294-7908-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; ; no. 56

Disciplina

113.8

Soggetti

Life

Immanence (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.