Truth and Singularity

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction The Part of the Subject

   1. Introduction The Part of the Subject

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 1-20

3. Truth and Finitude

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Heidegger’s Cave Being and Time on Disappearing Existentials

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 23-46

   3. From Foucault to Heidegger a One-Way Ticket?

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 47-72

   4. Meaning and Validity Habermas on Heidegger and Foucault

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 73-90

   5. Raw Being and Violent Discourse Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and the (Dis-)Order of Things

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 91-112

4. A Silence Which Escapes Intersubjectivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Dis-Possessed How to Remain Silent ‘After’ Levinas

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 115-143

   3. Uneuropean Desires Toward a Provincialism without Romanticism

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 144-164

   4. The Untouchable Merleau-Ponty’s Last Subject

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 165-200

   5. A Western Problem? Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 201-231

5. The Loneliness of a Subject Unable to Disappear

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. No Privacy? Levinas’s Intrigue of the Infinite

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 235-273

   3. Can Only a ‘Yes’ Save Us Now? Anti-Racism’s First Word in Derrida and Levinas

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 274-325

   4. The Gaze of the Big Other Levinas and Sartre on Racism

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 326-356

   5. Losing Face Richard Rorty’s Last Words

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 357-374

6. Conclusion Still Otherwise.? Between Foucault and Levinas

   1. Conclusion Still Otherwise.? Between Foucault and Levinas

      • Rudi Visker

      Pages 375-397

7. Back Matter

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THE PART OF THE SUBJECT At the origin of these essays, an increasing weariness produced by all those attempts to oppose what came to be known as Foucault's 'post­ structuralism' to phenomenology - as if the two were incompatible and as if one could only proceed with thought after having chosen sides. And an equal reluctance to join those who pretended they could carryon as they had before since, quite obviously, there were no sides to choose, 'Foucault' being but the latest example of a relativism that one could easily ignore since it had, like all relativism, already refuted itself by daring to speak. And, finally, behind that weariness and that reluctance, a suspicion that what these two reactions to 'Foucault' had in common was a refusal to go 'toward the things themselves' and thus a refusal to approach the texts that we refer to by that proper name as we would approach other phenomena: not as the body-object of a thought that we would have to locate as coming either 'before' or 'after' phenomenology, but as a series of statements that appear to us in a certain way and whose appearing reveals to us something about our own, finite being.

• discourse
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Habermas
• Jacques Derrida
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Jürgen Habermas
• Levinas
• Martin Heidegger
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Michel Foucault
• phenomenology
• philosophy
• Richard Rorty
• structuralism
• truth

"Truth and Singularity is an outstanding philosophical exercise into the ethics of intersubjectivity that is conducted in a "baroque fashion" (p.20) Visker's manifold interpretations are thought provoking and prone to generate further excursions into ontology and ethics."
(The Review of Metaphysics, November 2002)

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