{"product_id":"9781443825511","title":"Being Reconfigured","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeing Reconfigured presents some of the most brilliant and audacious theses in recent phenomenological research. Challenging so much post-Heideggerian doxa, it argues against contemporary phenomenology's denegation of Being, but suggests, as well, that phenomenology itself can provide a viable and fruitful alternative to this impasse. Specifically, Being Reconfigured delineates the source of phenomenology's 'refusal' of Being, in Husserl; the main strands it demonstrates, in Marion and Levinas; and the fundamental problems its entails-in Marion, the necessary retention of a 'metaphysical' subject, and in Levinas, the necessary revival of Kantian dualisms and diremptions. Beyond this critical survey, however, Leask also provides an alternative perspective, through a reassessment of Edith Stein's 'generous ontology.' This reassessment involves: delineating Stein's Patristic and Scholastic sources; amplifying her suggestions, through the work of Michel Henry, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas himself; and demonstrating the contemporary significance of Stein's phenomenology of Being-sustained and Being-safe(ty). By considering Being in these Steinian terms of support, safety and charity, Leask concludes, we might begin to overcome the difficulties described in the book's earlier chapters-and to do so by radically reassessing the 'nature' of the Being that we take for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge Scholars Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030511075568,"sku":"9781443825511","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781443825511_p0.jpg?v=1763815026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781443825511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}