Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology

Leonard Lawlor

Indiana University Press

The Implications of Immanence: Toward a New Concept of Life (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

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 phenomenologyis “life-ism,” the positive working out of the effects of the “minuscule hiatus” in a thinking that takes place on a “plane of immanence,” whose implications cannot be predicted. Life-ism means thinking life and death together, thinking death as dispersed throughout life. In carefully argued and extensively documented chapters, Lawlor sets out the surpassing of phenomenology and the advent of life-ism in Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Foucault, with careful attention to the writings by Husserl and Heidegger to which these thinkers refer.A philosophy of life has direct implications for present-day political and medical issues. The book takes its point of departure from the current genocide in Darfur and provides conceptual tools for intervening in such issues as the AIDS epidemic and life-support for the infirm. Indeed, the investigations contained in The Implications of Immanence are designed to help us emerge once and for all out of the epoch of bio-power.“Lawlor’s novel way of treating the concept of life is stimulating, original, and necessary for the social well being of our time.”―Fred Evans, Duquesne University“The Implications of Immanence continues the most promising, rigorous, and fruitful ongoing research project among scholars of twentieth-century philosophy. . . .A wonderful new book.”―John Protevi, Louisiana State University

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Fordham University Press

From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then returning to the United States. By spanning the annus mirabilis which has witnessed the centenary of Merleau-Ponty's birth celebrated everywhere, Chiasmi International has captured some of its most important echoes in this issue which presents as well important news in the journal's structure. The relocation of its American seat and a change in direction accompany the contributions of Merleau-Ponty specialists who are the most representative of four different generations. Reviews and a new section of essays "around" Merleau-Ponty's thought complete this issue with which Chiasmi International caps off its tenth anniversary.   Textes de // Texts by // Testi di: Suzi Adams, Emmanuel Alloa, Alia Al-Saji, Claudia Baracchi, Josep Maria Bech, Paride Broggi, Mauro Carbone, Paola Chiesa, Francoise Dastur, Daniela De Leo, Carmine Di Martino, Lester Embree, Veronique Foti, Simone Frangi, Giovanni Invitto, Stefan Kristensen, Mariana Larison, Federico Leoni, Enrica Lisciani-Petrini, Liu Zhe, Shoichi Matsuba, Rita Messori, Pierre Rodrigo, Davide Scarso, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Beata Stawarska, Luca Taddio, Jacques Taminiaux, Tommaso Tuppini, Luca Vanzago, Jean-Jacques Wunenburger.

Chiasmi International 11: Penser sans dualisme aujourd'hui Thinking Without Dualism Today Pensare senza dualismi oggi (English, French and Italian Edition)

Mauro Carbone

Pierre Rodrigo

Mimesis International

Chiasmi International 12 presents an extraordinary, unpublished extract from the first course Merleau-Ponty taught at the College de France. It is one of the few places where he speaks of cinema and its literal sense of movement. Thus, a "Special Section" called "Cinema and the Philosophy of Movement" is devoted to this topic. It contains six essays, two of which were written by Chiasmi International editors, Mauro Carbone and Pierre Rodrigo. Moreover, this issue collects a wide scope of essays, focusing specially on Merleau-Ponty's ontology and on his reflection about dance and painting. It also presents two particularly remarkable texts: an article by Renaud Barbaras, Editor Emeritus of our journal, and an interview with Andrea Camilleri, the famous Italian detective novelist, whose works were influenced by Merleau-Ponty.      Textes de // Texts by // Testi di: Renaud Barbaras, Andrea Camilleri, Mauro Carbone, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Caterina Di Rienzo, Antonino Firenze, Simone Frangi, Koji Hirose, Takashi Kakuni, Tetsuya Kono, Stefan Kristensen, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, David Morris, Soren Gosvig Olesen, Pierre Rodrigo, Claudio Rozzoni, Davide Scarso, Eva-Maria Simms, Tanja Staehler, Luis Antonio Umbelino, Luca Vanzago, Keith Whitmoyer.

Chiasmi International 12: Merleau-Ponty et mouvement des images – Philosophy and moving pictures – Filosofia e immagini in movimento (English, French and Italian Edition)

Federico Leoni

Merleau-Ponty cinquante ans après sa mort: éléments pour une biographie intellectuelle Merleau-Ponty fifty years after his death: desiderata for an intellectual biography Merleau-Ponty a cinquant’anni dalla morte: elementi per una biografia intellettuale **** dossier // special section: Merleau-Ponty et Deleuze. Dissonances et résonances Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Dissonances and resonances Merleau-Ponty e Deleuze. Dissonanze e risonanze **** varia // diverse **** comptes rendus // revues // recensioni TESXTES DE // TEXTS BY // TESTI DI: Guillaume Carron, Frank Chouraqui, Gilles Deleuze, Annabelle Dufourcq, Josef Fulka, Paolo Godani, Stella Maranesi, Glen Mazis, Judith Michalet, Pierre Montebello, Marta Nijhuis, Stephen A. Noble, Cameron O’Mara, Dorothea Olkowski, Irene Pinto Pardelha, Pierre Rodrigo, Claudio Rozzoni, David Scott, Danilo Saretta Verissimo, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, Daniel W. Smith, Judith Wambacq.

Chiasmi International 13: Merleau-Ponty cinquante ans après sa mort: éléments pour une biographie intellectuelle Merleau-Ponty fifty years after his ... (English, French and Italian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Federico Leone

and Pierre Rodrigo

Professionals & Academics

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