Hiddenness and alterity
Subtitle: philosophical and literary sightings of the unseen
By: James Richard Mensch
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Other (Philosophy); Phenomenology; Ethics
Description: "Using resources of phenomenology to examine how we are able to engage in self-concealment, Mensch presents a unified theory of the role of the other in our relations to the world"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index
Table of contents: title: Temporalization as the trace of the subject; title: The alterity of time; title: Logic and alterity; title: Imagination and others; title: Givenness and alterity; title: Selfhood and politics; title: Shame and guilt; title: Benito Cerino : Freud and the breakdown of politics; title: Literature and evil; title: Rescue and the face to face; title: Abraham and Isaac : a question of theodicy; title: What should we pray for?; title: Metaphysics and alterity