Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality

Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida

By (author) John Martis

Publication date:

30 May 2017

Length of book:

194 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498543996

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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."

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Subject of Hospitality
Chapter 2: The self: relating its self-certainty to its uncertainty
Chapter 3: The Self-Certain Self, the Self as Other, and the Possibility of Hospitality
Chapter 4: Derrida's Arrivant and Augustine's Hospitable Self
Chapter 5: The Hospitable Self-In-Loss as Subject: Further Challenges Met
Conclusion: The Subject Seen Anew: "I Welcome, Therefore I Am"
Bibliography
About the Author