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.

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 the elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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