| The Self-Emptying Subject: Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy-Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault's ethics of self-cultivation-- The Self-Emptying Subject theorizes an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis , that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and dispossessed life "without a why." Rather than aligning immanence with the enclosures of the subject, The Self-Emptying Subject engages the history of Christian mystical theology, modern philosophy, and contemporary theories of the subject to rethink immanence as what precedes and exceeds the very difference between the (human) self and the (divine) other, between the subject and transcendence. By arguing that transcendence operates and subjects life in secular no less than in religious domains, this book challenges the dominant distribution of concepts in contemporary theoretical discourse, which insists on associating transcendence exclusively with religion and theology and immanence exclusively with modern secularity and philosophy. Dubilet Alex : Alex Dubilet is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of English and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is co-translator (with Jessie Hock) of François Laruelle's General Theory of Victims and A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities . Alex Dubilet is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of English and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is co-translator (with Jessie Hock) of François Laruelle's General Theory of Victims and A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities . |