John Martis

Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality (eBook, ePUB)

Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Intervervening in a lively debate in contemporary European philosophy, this book offers a radically revisioned account of the self subjected to experience. Patiently yet vigorously engaging Jean-Luc Marion's reading of selfhood in St Augustine, Martis reaches back deeply into the Western Philosophical tradition to propose a bold solution to the phemomenological problem of how a self can recognise an other, while remiaining itself. Insights from Descartes, Kant, Derrida, Blanchot, Romano and others are brought together to undergird an account of a self that remains itself only in ceaseless loss to necessary incursions of the other: "I Welcome therefore I am."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498544009
• Artikelnr.: 48565826

Autorenporträt

John Martis SJ teaches philosophy at Pilgrim Theological College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Subject of Hospitality
Chapter 2: The self: relating its self-certainty to its uncertainty
Chapter 3: The Self-Certain Self, the Self as Other, and the Possibility of
Hospitality
Chapter 4: Derrida's Arrivant and Augustine's Hospitable Self
Chapter 5: The Hospitable Self-In-Loss as Subject: Further Challenges Met
Conclusion: The Subject Seen Anew: "I Welcome, Therefore I Am"
Bibliography
About the Author