The Alphonso Lingis Reader

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A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy. Alphonso Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the past fifty years. An extended encounter with the singular philosopher, The Alphonso Lingis Reader conducts us through Lingis's early writing on phenomenology to his hybrid studies fusing philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, communication theory, aesthetics, and other disciplines, to his original, inspired arguments about everything from knowledge to laughter to death.

Alphonso Lingis is professor emeritus of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of more than a dozen books (including Trust, published by Minnesota) and the translator of several works of French philosophy, including Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible and Levinas's Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being. Tom Sparrow is assistant professor of philosophy at Slippery Rock University. He is the author and editor of several books, and coeditor of Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis.

"Here we find Lingis at his most hopeful, even at times humanistic, but in the most original and compelling ways, without sentimentality or superstition."-Tom Sparrow, from the Introduction