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Lexington Books Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality Recasting the Self with Augustine Descartes Marion and Derrida by 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."_x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Preface _x000D_
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Subject of Hospitality _x000D_
Chapter 2: The self: relating its self-certainty to its uncertainty_x000D_
Chapter 3: The Self-Certain Self, the Self as Other, and the Possibility of Hospitality_x000D_
Chapter 4: Derrida's Arrivant and Augustine's Hospitable Self_x000D_
Chapter 5: The Hospitable Self-In-Loss as Subject: Further Challenges Met_x000D_
Conclusion: The Subject Seen Anew: "I Welcome, Therefore I Am"_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_
About the Author_x000D_