Truth and Singularity: Taking Foucault into Phenomenology

Abbreviations. Introduction. I: Truth and Finitude. 1. Heidegger's Cave. Being and Time on Disappearing Existentials. 2. From Foucault to Heidegger. A One Way-Ticket? 3. Meaning and Validity. Habermas on Heidegger and Foucault. 4. Raw Being and Violent Discourse. Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and the (Dis-)order of Things. II: A Silence Which Escapes Intersubjectivity. 5. Dis-possessed. How to Remain Silent `after' Levinas. 6. Uneuropean Desires. Toward a Provincialism without Romanticism. 7. The Untouchable. Merleau-Ponty's Last Subject. 8. A Western Problem? Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity. III: The Loneliness of a Subject Unable to Disappear. 9. No Privacy? Levinas' Intrigue of the Infinite. 10. Can Only a `Yes' Save Us Now? Anti-Racism's First Word in Derrida and Levinas. 11. The Gaze of the Big Other. Levinas and Sartre on Racism. 12. Losing Face. Richard Rorty's Last Words. Conclusion. Acknowledgements. Index.