Bøger af Rudi Visker

And, instead of hailing Levinas as the critic whose stress on the alterity of the Other corrects Heidegger's existential solipsism, the problems into which Levinas runs in defining that alterity call for a different diagnosis and a corresponding change in the course that phenomenology has taken since.

And, instead of hailing Levinas as the critic whose stress on the alterity of the Other corrects Heidegger's existential solipsism, the problems into which Levinas runs in defining that alterity call for a different diagnosis and a corresponding change in the course that phenomenology has taken since.

The aim of these essays is to disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in recent contemporary philosophy have been caught.

A survey of Foucault's corpus, from his early work on madness to the "History of Sexuality", this book portrays Foucault's as falling into neither the relativist nor the positivist categories, but rather as the inventor of a new analysis of modern mechanisms of control and exclusion.