Dangerous Emotions
Alphonso Lingis
Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An   eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a   phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions   continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses, taking the reader to   Easter Island, Japan, Java, and Brazil as Lingis poses a new range of questions   and brings his extraordinary descriptive skills to bear on innocence and the   love of crime, the relationships of beauty with lust and of joy with violence   and violation. He explores the religion of animals, the force in blessings and   in curses. When the sphere of work and reason breaks down, and in catastrophic   events we catch sight of cosmic time, our anxiety is mixed with exhilaration and   ecstasy. More than acceptance of death, can philosophy understand joy in dying?   Haunting and courageous, Lingis's writing has generated intense interest and   debate among gender and cultural theorists as well as philosophers, and   Dangerous Emotions is certain to introduce his work to an ever broader   circle of readers.