{"product_id":"irrevocable-alphonso-lingis-9780226556932","title":"Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality","description":"In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, religion, and science, Lingis seeks to uncover what in our reality escapes our attempts at measuring and categorizing. Writing as much from his own experiences and those of others as from his longstanding engagement with phenomenology and existentialism, \u003ci\u003eIrrevocable\u003c\/i\u003e studies the world in which shadows, reflections, halos, and reverberations count as much as the carpentry of things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether describing religious art and ritual, suffering, war and disease, the pleasures of love, the wonders of nature, archaeological findings, surfing, volcanoes, or jellyfish, Lingis writes with equal measures of rigor and abandon about the vicissitudes of our practices and beliefs. Knowing that birth, the essential encounters in our lives, crippling diseases and accidents, and even death are all determined by chance, how do we recognize and understand such chance? After facing tragedies, what makes it possible to live on while recognizing our irrevocable losses? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lingis's investigations are accompanied by his own vivid photographs from around the world. Balancing the local and the global, and ranging across vast expanses of culture and time, \u003ci\u003eIrrevocable\u003c\/i\u003e sounds the depths of both our passions and our impassioned bodies and minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alphonso Lingis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022655693X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226556932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Alphonso Lingis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086417342719,"sku":"9780226556932","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0b79aa8-d43b-4d5b-be6c-836a545565c8.jpg?v=1769094555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irrevocable-alphonso-lingis-9780226556932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}