Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality: Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida

John Martis

Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality: Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
30 May 2017
Pages
194
ISBN
9781498543996

Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality: Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida

John Martis

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.

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