Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis

Bodies in Transit

Janus Head ◽

10.5840/jh20071017 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 99-122

Author(s):

Tom Sparrow ◽

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Critical Attention ◽

The Subject ◽

In Transit ◽

Alphonso Lingis

Alphonso Lingis is the author of many hooks and renowned for his translations of Levinas, Merleau-Pontyy and Klossowski. By combining a rich philosophical training with an extensive travel itinerary, Lingis has developed a distinctive brand of phenomenobgy that is only now beginning to gain critical attention. Lingis inhabits a ready-made language and conceptuality, but cultivates a style of thinking which disrupts and transforms the work of his predecessors, setting him apart from the rest of his field. This essay sketches Lingis phenomenobgy of sensation in order to give expression to some dimensions of Lingisian travel. As we see, Lingis deploys a theory of the subject which features the plasticity of the body, the materiality of affect, and the alimentary nature of sensation.

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Book Review, Alphonso Lingis, Sensation: Intelligibility in sensibility.

Human Studies ◽

10.1023/a:1005365825720 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 113-119

Author(s):

Raj Thiruvengadam

Keyword(s):

Alphonso Lingis

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The Alphonso Lingis Reader

10.5749/j.ctv6zd95b ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alphonso Lingis

Keyword(s):

Alphonso Lingis

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Alphonso Lingis, Penn State, Emeritus

New Nietzsche Studies ◽

10.5840/newnietzsche2016101/213 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 173-176

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Penn State ◽

Alphonso Lingis

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Nature trouble

Antiquities Beyond Humanism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198805670.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 211-238

Author(s):

Emanuela Bianchi

Keyword(s):

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Natural World ◽

Classical Antiquity ◽

Luce Irigaray ◽

Gender Performativity ◽

Karen Barad ◽

Underlying Reality ◽

Alphonso Lingis

This chapter interrogates the search for origin in classical antiquity alongside the search for an underlying reality in contemporary physics. Drawing on Butler’s notion of gender performativity as well as a phenomenological approach to the natural world that brings to bear the thinking of John Sallis, Alphonso Lingis, and Luce Irigaray upon early Greek texts, Bianchi develops a phenomenological and elemental account of nature as itself thoroughly performative, a theater of display, effect, and response that may never succumb to full epistemic illumination. In so doing, she at once radicalizes the Heideggerian account of ancient physis, while mounting an intervention into what she sees as the reductionism and scientism of contemporary theorists of the posthuman such as Karen Barad.

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