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Hiddenness and alterity : philosophical and literary sightings of the unseen

Title
Hiddenness and alterity : philosophical and literary sightings of the unseen / James Richard Mensch.
Author
Mensch, James R.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, ©2005.

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Description
x, 270 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Self (Philosophy)
  • Other (Philosophy)
  • Phenomenology
  • Ethics
  • Ethics
  • phenomenology
  • ethics (philosophy)
  • Phenomenology
  • Das Andere
  • Phänomenologie
  • Selbst
  • Philosophie
  • Zelf
  • Das @Andere
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
Contents
Temporalization as the trace of the subject -- The alterity of time -- Logic and alterity -- Imagination and others -- Givenness and alterity -- Selfhood and politics -- Shame and guilt -- Benito Cerino : Freud and the breakdown of politics -- Literature and evil -- Rescue and the face to face -- Abraham and Isaac : a question of theodicy -- What should we pray for? -- Metaphysics and alterity.
ISBN
  • 0820703664
  • 9780820703664
  • 0820703672
  • 9780820703671
LCCN
2004025641
OCLC
  • ocm57003774
  • 57003774
  • SCSB-9581118
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library