The Implications of Immanence. Toward a New Concept of Life.
Leonard Lawlor
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Hardback. Develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of "bio-power," which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life," mere biological existence. This book provides conceptual tools for intervening in issues such as the AIDS epidemic and life-support for the infirm. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
The Implications of Immanence develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of “bio-power,” which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms “bare life,” mere biological existence. Breaking with all biologism or vitalism, Lawlor attends to the dispersion of death at the heart of life, in the “minuscule hiatus” that divides the living present, separating lived experience from the living body and, crucially for phenomenology, inserting a blind spot into a visual field.
Lawlor charts here a post-phenomenological French philosophy. What lies beyond phenomenology
is “life-ism,” the positive working out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823226535
SKU
V9780823226535
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About Leonard Lawlor
Leonard Lawlor is Sparks Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Derrida and Dusserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology; Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question; The Challenge of Bergsonism: Phenomenology, Ontology, Ethics; and Imagination and Chance: The Difference between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida.
Reviews for The Implications of Immanence. Toward a New Concept of Life.
"Seeking the implications of completing immanence, Lawlor proposes life-ism, an imperative from Merleau-Ponty 50 years ago, to find the principle of life. -Book News "A fascinating and wide-ranging book that opens up new connections between the key movements of French philosophy in the second half of the 20th century."
-Paul Patton University of New South Wales "A highly original ... Read more
-Paul Patton University of New South Wales "A highly original ... Read more