The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
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..". thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis's work is above alltouching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that sooften passes for philosophical writing." -- RadicalPhilosophy ..". striking for the clarity and singularity ofits styles and voices as well as for the compelling measure of genuine philosophicoriginality which it contributes to questions of community and (its)communication." -- Research in Phenomenology Articulating theauthor's journeys and personal experiences in the idiom of contemporary continentalthought, Alphonso Lingis launches a devastating critique, pointing up the myopia ofWestern rationalism. Here Lingis raises issues of undeniable urgency.
Is there not a growing conviction that the dying of people with whom we have no racial kinship, no language, no religion, no economic interests in common concerns us? This work takes as its point of departure the mortality that unites all people, even those who seemingly have nothing else in common.