Questions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude - Paperback

by Françoise Dastur (Author), Robert Vallier (Translator)

Françoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on display in this remarkable volume.

Dastur guides the reader through a series of phenomenological questions--language and logic, self and other, temporality and history, finitude and mortality--that also call phenomenology itself into question, testing its limits and pushing it in new directions. Like Merleau-Ponty, Dastur sees phenomenology not as a doctrine, a catalogue of concepts and catchphrases authored by a single thinker, but as a movement in which several thinkers participate, each inflecting the movement in unique ways. In this regard, Dastur is both one of the clearest guides to phenomenology and one of its ablest practitioners.

Author Biography

Françoise Dastur is Professeur Emerita at the Université de Nice. Her most recent book to appear in English is How Are We to Confront Death? An Introduction to Philosophy (Fordham).

Robert Vallier received his Ph.D. in philosophy from DePaul University and is a translator, consultant, and lecturer in Paris, France.