{"product_id":"the-first-person-singular-alphonso-lingis-9780810124127","title":"The First Person Singular","description":"Alphonso Lingis's singular works of philosophy are not so much written as performed, and in \u003ci\u003eThe First Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e the performance is characteristically brilliant, a consummate act of philosophical reckoning. Lingis's subject here, aptly enough, is the subject itself, understood not as consciousness but as embodied, impassioned, active being. His book is, at the same time, an elegant cultural analysis of how subjectivity is differently and collectively understood, invested, and situated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The subject Lingis elaborates in detail is the passionate subject of fantasy, of obsessive commitment, of noble actions, the subject enacting itself through an engagement with others, including animals and natural forces. This is not the linguistic or literary subject posited by structuralism and post-structuralism, nor the rational consciousness posited by post-Enlightenment philosophy. It is rather a being embodied in both a passionate, intensifying activity and a cultural collective made up of embodied others as well as the social rituals and practices that comprise this first person singular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alphonso Lingis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810124122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810124127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Alphonso Lingis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086903750911,"sku":"9780810124127","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e67ea7f-f1c4-498c-9284-6f038aac98d1.jpg?v=1769097233","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-first-person-singular-alphonso-lingis-9780810124127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}