Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy: The First Full Length Study of the Work of Alphonso Lingis

by Alexander E. Hooke

What is philosophy? Is philosophy an academic discipline that produces arguments and theories, or is philosophy also about understanding the world through stories, metaphors, analogies, ambience, and even through feelings?

Alphonso Lingis approaches philosophy the way a travel writer approaches a strange new land, with his eyes open and with a conscious desire for experience. Using the genealogical approach of Nietzsche and Foucault, his work continues the phenomenological tradition.

Alexander E. Hooke's Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy is the first book-length study of Lingis' philosophical works.

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2019

About the author

Alexander E. Hooke is Professor of Philosophy at Stevenson University. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, with a philosophical focus on Nietzsche, Foucault, and Alphonso Lingis. He has published over 40 op-ed essays in the Baltimore Sun and other local news venues. He is the editor of Virtuous Persons, Vicious Deeds: An Introduction to Ethics, co-editor of Encounters with Alphonso Lingis, co-editor of The Twilight Zone and Philosophy, and the author of Philosophy Sketches: 700 Words at a Time.