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Book SynopsisIntervervening in a lively debate in contemporary European philosophy, this book offers a radically revisioned account of the self subjected to experience. Patiently yet vigorously engaging Jean-Luc Marion''s reading of selfhood in St Augustine, Martis reaches back deeply into the Western Philosophical tradition to propose a bold solution to the phemomenological problem of how a self can recognise an other, while remiaining itself. Insights from Descartes, Kant, Derrida, Blanchot, Romano and others are brought together to undergird an account of a self that remains itself only in ceaseless loss to necessary incursions of the other: I Welcome therefore I am.
Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction: The Subject of Hospitality Chapter 2: The self: relating its self-certainty to its uncertainty Chapter 3: The Self-Certain Self, the Self as Other, and the Possibility of Hospitality Chapter 4: Derrida's Arrivant and Augustine's Hospitable Self Chapter 5: The Hospitable Self-In-Loss as Subject: Further Challenges Met Conclusion: The Subject Seen Anew: "I Welcome, Therefore I Am" Bibliography About the Author
