On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life (Forms of Living)

Product description Review "Juan Manuel Garrido renews in an impressive way the question concerning 'life.' By the term 'life' we usually mean a sort of immediacy, a self-presence through auto-affection and transmission through self-perpetuation. Garrido, however, opens life -- simply, if I may say so -- to the infinity of a 'being-towards' and a 'hunger' this infinity is not the indefinition of a life that simply 'continues, ' but the elevation of life - or its hollowing out, which is the same thing - to being-out-of-itself. This is, in one word, a philosophical revolution."-----Jean-Luc Nancy"Garrido makes a real, and highlysignificant intervention in the ways we commonly think about the phenomenonof life."-----Rodolphe Gasché, University at Buffalo, The State University of New YorkA new and compelling voice in philosophy. Garrido develops aprofoundly interesting and compelling investigation of the senses ofbeing and temporality. In doing so, he moves beyond philosophies thatemphasize traditional ontology and their correlative concept of time.-----Alejandro Vallega, University of Oregon About the Author Juan Manuel Garrido teaches philosophy at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. He did his degree under Jean-Luc Nancy at the Marc Bloch Université, Strasbourg. He is the author of La formation des formes (Paris: Galilée 2008) and Chances de la pensée à partir de Jean-Luc Nancy (Paris: Galilée, 2011)Juan Manuel Garrido teaches philosophy at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. He earned his degree under Jean-Luc Nancy at the Marc Bloch Université, Strasbourg. He is the author of La formation des formes and Chances de la pensée—à partir de Jean-Luc Nancy.