Truth and Singularity

Taking Foucault into Phenomenology

By:

Rudi Visker

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Series:

Phaenomenologica,

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The aim of these essays is to disentangle the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many debates in philosophy have found themselves caught. Unsurprisingly so, for, as this volume shows, what is in fact returning in these discussions and manoeuvring them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity which they seek to repress. The name of that ambiguity is, of course, "the subject", but a subject whose finitude seems to have left it with a burden which it did not wait for philosophy to take over. Racism, ethnocentrism and multiculturalism owe their dynamics to a tension at the heart of the subjectivity of a subject which not only lost its place at the centre, but also found its place outside that centre to be less than comfortable. As the collision between phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas) and post-structuralism (Foucault, Lacan, Derrida) enacted in this volume forces one to conclude, such a decentred subject is all but dead. It is attached to "something" to which it does not access and from which it cannot rid itself, because it is that to which it owes its singularity.

Release date NZ

October 31st, 1999

Author

Rudi Visker

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XI, 412 p.

Pages

412

Series

Phaenomenologica,

Dimensions

170x244x23

ISBN-13

9780792359852

Product ID

2437707

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