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Episode 134: Thinking and Animals with Alphonso Lingis
No full textThis week on Knowing Animals we are joined by Alphonso Lingis. Al is Professor of philosophy at Penn State University. We discuss his book chapter ‘The thinking that is in the world’, which was included in book Thinking in the World: A Reader’, edited by Jill Bennett, Mary Zournazi and published by Bloomsbury in 2019
Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis
No full textAlphonso Lingis is the author of fourteen books and many essays. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. While many know him only as an eccentric ex-professor or as the translator of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Pierre Klossowski, he is arguably the most distinctive voice in American continental philosophy. This is no doubt due to the perpetual travel that fuels his arresting written prose and unorthodox public readings. Lingis’s lifelong itinerary includes visits — some brief, others extended or recurring — to 109 countries. Along the way he has photographed innumerable strangers whose faces adorn the pages of his books. Photography is as essential to Lingis’s multidisciplinary philosophical perspective as is his knowledge of phenomenology, anthropology, or psychoanalysis. Some of his photographs have been recently collected and published in the book Contact. Unlike most career academics, Lingis has made a name for himself collecting exotic birds and other creatures, staging performance readings at professional conferences, keeping up a diligent correspondence with friends at home and abroad, and splicing together high theory with intimate autobiography. Those who know him speak of his warmth, sincerity, and noncombative style of argumentation — rare traits among university scholars. Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis gathers a diverse collection of texts on Lingis’s life and philosophy, including poetry, original interviews, essays, book reviews, and a photo essay. It also includes an unpublished piece by Lingis, “Doubles,” along with copies of several of his letters to a friend
Existential anthropology of Alphonso Lingis
No full textŠiame straipsnyje aptariama Alphonso Lingio filosofinė antropologija egzistenciniame kontekste. Tyrinėjamos filosofo ir keliautojo patirtys. Filosofinė veikla ir kelionės – tai neatskiriamos patirtys. Lingio fenomenologinė filosofija siejasi su tuo, kas gali būti sąlygiškai įvardijama kaip egzistencinė antropologija. Istoriškai egzistencializmas kaip intelektinis sąjūdis yra tarsi pasibaigęs. Tačiau tai, kas baigiasi tradicinėje filosofijoje, atgyja kitose, giminingose filosofijos disciplinose. Tokią giminingą mąstymo ir veiklos strategiją galima laikyti antropologiją. Egzistencinės Lingio kelionės gali būti suvokiamos dvejopai: viena vertus, tai skirtingų šalių ir kraštų lankymas, kita vertus, tai kelionė į savo patirtį. Kelionės patirtis susijusi su mąstymo patirtimi. Mintis nėra izoliuota nuo kitų minčių. Apmąstymas visada susijęs su tam tikra atmosfera, nuotaika, būsena. Mintis gyva, kai ji šaukiasi kitos minties, o mąstymas gyvas, kai gali inspiruoti kitą mąstymą. Filosofija yra kelionė keliomis netiesinėmis gyvenimo maršrutų kryptimis. Kelio trajektorija gali būti suvokiama kaip nuotoliai ar atstumai nuo kažko ar kažko link. Tačiau tai gali būti suvokiama ir kaip tebevykstantys gyvenimo susidūrimai ar gyvenimo įvykiai. Filosofinė kelionė į tai, kas nesu aš pats, padeda apibrėžti savo Aš ir patikslinti savo ribas. Kartu tai kelionė į savo patirtį. Keliaudamas žmogus atsiveria ir patiria save ir pasaulį aplink save. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Alfonsas Lingis; Alphonso Lingis; Antropologija; Asmeninių išgyvenimų fenomenai; Egzistencializmas; Egzistencinė antropologija; Fenomenologija; Filosofinė antropologija; Filosofinė antropologija, Alfonsas Lingis; Kelionių patirtis; Kelionė; Kelionės patirtis; Patirties antropologija; Žmogiškoji patirtis; Alfonso Lingis; Alphonso Lingis; Anthropology; Anthropology existencial; Anthropology of experience; Existentialism; Experience of journeys; Phenomenology; Philosophical anthropology; Philosophical anthropology, human experience, travel experience, experienced phenomena; TravelThe author of this article aims to review philosophical anthropology of A. Lingis in existential context. Experiences of philosopher and traveller are often closely intertwined. Philosophical activity and philosophical travel experience are inseparable experiences. Phenomenological philosophy of A. Lingis is connected with what is relatively defined as existential anthropology. Unique and unrepeatable events reveal themselves in philosopher's personal and travel experienc
Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis
No full textAlphonso Lingis is the author of fourteen books and many essays. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. While many know him only as an eccentric ex-professor or as the translator of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Pierre Klossowski, he is arguably the most distinctive voice in American continental philosophy. This is no doubt due to the perpetual travel that fuels his arresting written prose and unorthodox public readings. Lingis’s lifelong itinerary includes visits — some brief, others extended or recurring — to 109 countries. Along the way he has photographed innumerable strangers whose faces adorn the pages of his books. Photography is as essential to Lingis’s multidisciplinary philosophical perspective as is his knowledge of phenomenology, anthropology, or psychoanalysis. Some of his photographs have been recently collected and published in the book Contact. Unlike most career academics, Lingis has made a name for himself collecting exotic birds and other creatures, staging performance readings at professional conferences, keeping up a diligent correspondence with friends at home and abroad, and splicing together high theory with intimate autobiography. Those who know him speak of his warmth, sincerity, and noncombative style of argumentation — rare traits among university scholars. Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis gathers a diverse collection of texts on Lingis’s life and philosophy, including poetry, original interviews, essays, book reviews, and a photo essay. It also includes an unpublished piece by Lingis, “Doubles,” along with copies of several of his letters to a friend
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: Alphonso McClendon “Fashion and Jazz”
No full textAlphonso McClendon at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017.Alphonso McClendon is author of the book "Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity" and "Subcultural Improvisation.
Abuses
No full textPart travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's book offers no less than a new approach to philosophy - aesthetic and sympathetic - which departs from the phenomenology of Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. "These were letters written to friends," Lingis writes, "from places I found myself for months at a time, about encounters that moved me and troubled me. . . . These writings also became no longer my letters. I found myself only trying to speak for others, others greeted only with passionate kisses of parting."Ranging from the elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the living rooms of the Mexican elite, to the streets of Manila, Lingis recounts incidents of state-sponsored violence and the progressive incorporation of third-world peoples into the circuits of exchange of international capitalism. Recalling the work of such writers as Graham Greene, Kathy Acker, and Georges Bataille, Abuses contains impassioned accounts of silence, eros and identity, torture and war, the sublime, lust and joy, and human rituals surrounding carnival and death that occurred during his journeys to India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Bali, the Philippines, Antarctica, and Latin America. A deeply unsettling book by a philosopher of unusual imagination, Abuses will appeal to readers who, like its author, "may want the enigmas and want the discomfiture within oneself.
Two Notions of Vulnerable and Intensely Affected Body: Gilles Deleuze and Alphonso Lingis
No full textStraipsnyje analizuojamos dvi prieigos prie Francio Bacono tapybos. Tiek Gilles’io Deleuze’o filosofijai, tiek Alphonso Lingio postfenomenologijai būdingos jautraus kūno, pojūčio ir afekto sąvokos, o jų probleminis statusas geriausiai išryškėja būtent per jų santykį su Bacono tapyba, kuri kaip savo pagrindinį objektą pateikia pažeidžiamo ir intensyviai afektuojamo kūno realybę. Straipsnyje koncentruojamasi į klausimą, kuris inicijavo abu tyrimus. Kas iš tiesų lemia Bacono paveikslų paveikumą: linijos ir spalvos prievartingumas, paneigiantis figūratyvumo faktorių Bacono tapyboje (Deleuze’as) ar, priešingai, paties gyvenimo žiaurumas, patvirtinantis reprezentacijos reikšmę (Lingis)? Straipsnyje teigiama, kad tokias skirtingas interpretacijas lemia skirtinga patirties samprata. Lingis akcentuoja aktualią patirtį, tai leidžia pagrįsti kūrybos, asmeninės kūrėjo patirties ir gyvenamojo pasaulio ryšį. Deleuze’as kalba apie virtualią patirtį, beasmenį gyvenimą, kūną be organų ir naujų perspektyvų kūrimą. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Baconas; Kūnas; Figūra; Pojūtis; Fenomenologija; Patirtis; Žiaurumas; Bacon; Body; Figure; Sensation; Phenomenology; Experience; ViolenceTwo different approaches towards Francis Bacon’s painting are analysed in the article: postmodern and phenomenological. The problematic and multiple status of such concepts as sensitive body, intensive sensation and the affect common for both Gilles Deleuze’s and Alphonso Lingis’ philosophy become most visible in regard to Bacon’s painting that displays the reality of the vulnerable and intensely affected body as his main subject. The article follows the main intrigue which inspires their studies, i.e. the article aims to explain what determines the suggestibility of Bacon’s canvas: is there the violence of line and colour, which negates the role of figuration (Deleuze) or the violence of life, that on the contrary, affirms representation (Lingis)? The author maintains that such different interpretations are determined by different notions of experience. Lingis emphasizes actual experience which allows to find the link between creation, lived body and life world, while Deleuze stresses virtual experience, impersonal life, body without organs and creation of new perspectives
PRÉSENTER LINGIS
No full textInternational audiencePrésenter Alphonso Lingis dans un livre sur l’art et le sens devrait assurément débuter par une photographie. Non pas une photo de Lingis ou de moi-même (qui écris cette présentation). Lingis commence chaque chapitre de ses livres par une photographie qui montre le paysage visité, la personne rencontrée, mais jamais son propre visage. C’est le visage de l’autre qui est donné à voir. [...
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