Abuses by Lingis, Alphonso - 1994

Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, age-toning to edges; good+ in good, rubbed dustjacket showing tide-mark to spine.

University of California Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of California Press, 1994-09-07. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 268pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Board edges lightly sunned, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with faint internal foxing. Part travelogue, part meditation.

Berkley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. ix, 268 pages. "Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's book offers no less than a new approach to philosophy--aesthetic and sympathetic--which departs from the phenomenology of Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. "These were letters written to friends," Lingis writes, "from places I found myself for months at a time, about encounters that moved me and troubled me. . . . These writings also became no longer my letters. I found myself only trying to speak for others, others greeted only with passionate kisses of parting." Ranging from… Read More

University of California Press, 1994-09-07. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!