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screams, often in total darkness. Throughout his years at Penn State, his travels shifted
increasingly from Europe to the developing world, with especial bases in Bangkok and
Rio de Janeiro, and most recently, Africa. In recent years he has also renewed contact
with his ancestral heritage, reaching prominence in Lithuania.
His publications include: Escesses: Eros and Culture (1984), Libido: The French Existential
Theories (1985), Phenomenological Explanations (1986), Deathbound Subjectivity
(1989), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994),
Foreign Bodies (1994), Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (1995), The Imperative
(1998), Dangerous Emotions (1999).
ECSTATIC TRANSGRESSIONS:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH ALPHONSO LINGIS
Chaired and Introduced by Robert Switzer (Philosophy, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo,
EGYPT)
Explores the nomadic, deeply ethical philosophy of Alphonso Lingis: a philosophy of sacrilege and
blessing, a phenomenology of the spaces, elements and levels articulated around our active or disengaged
bodies, dissolute and desiring.
Rashmika Pandya (Philosophy, American University of Cairo, EGYPT)
Alphonso Lingis’s Ethics of Embodiment
Graham Harman (Philosophy, American University in Cairo, New Cairo, EGYPT)
More Faces, Idols, Fetishes
Sonu Shamdasani (Psychology, University College London, UK)
Encomium
Alex Hooke (Arts and Humanities, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD, USA)
The Heroic in Lingis’ Existential Genealogy
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