Title
The Implications of Immanence : Toward a New Concept of Life / Leonard Lawlor.
ISBN
9780823293001
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (192 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823293001 doi
Summary
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 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
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Digital File Characteristics
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Source of Description
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Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823226542
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Signs
1. Verstellung (''Misplacement'') Completions of Immanence
2. With My Hand over My Heart, Looking You Right in the Eyes, I Promise Myself to You . . .
3. ''For the Creation Waits with Eager Longing for the Revelation''
4. Eschatology and Positivism
5. Un e´cart infime (Part I)
6. Un e´cart infime (Part II)
7. Noli me tangere
8. Un e´cart infime (Part III)
9. ''This Is What We Must Not Do''
10. Metaphysics and Powerlessness
Conclusion: The Followers
Notes
Index
