Testing the limit : Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the phenomenological tradition
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Testing the limit : Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the phenomenological tradition
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, c2012
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L'épreuve de la limite : Derrida, Henry, Levinas et la phénoménologie
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"Testing the limit was originally published in French under the title L'Épreuve de la limite : Derrida, Henry, Levinas et la phenoménologie"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-320)
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In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgress-or hover around and therefore within-the threshold of phenomenologial discourse? This is the first book to include Michel Henry in a triangulation with Derrida and Levinas and the first to critique Levinas on the basis of his interpolation of philosophy and religion. Sebbah claims that the textual origins of phenomenology determine, in their temporal rhythms, the nature of the subjectivation on which they focus. He situates these considerations within the broader picture of the state of contemporary French phenomenology (chiefly the legacy of Merleau-Ponty), in order to show that these three thinkers share a certain "family resemblance," the identification of which reveals something about the traces of other phenomenological families. It is by testing the limit within the context of traditional phenomenological concerns about the appearance of subjectivity and ipseity that Derrida, Henry, and Levinas radically reconsider phenomenology and that French phenomenology assumes its present form.
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