%0 Journal Article
%T Bodies in Transit: The Plastic Subject of Alphonso Lingis
%A Tom Sparrow
%J Perspectives : International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
%D 2009
%I 
%X Alphonso Lingis is the author of many books and renowned for his translations of Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Klossowski. By combining a rich philosophical training with an extensive travel itinerary, Lingis has developed a distinctive brand of phenomenology that is only now beginning to gain critical attention. Lingis inhabits a ready-made language and conceptuality, but cultivates a style of thinking which disrupts and transforms the work of his predecessors, setting him apart from the rest of his field. This essay sketches Lingis¡¯ phenomenology of sensation in order to give expression to some dimensions of Lingisian travel. As we see, Lingis deploys a theory of the subject which features the plasticity of the body, the materiality of affect, and the alimentary nature of sensation.
%K body
%K sensation
%K plasticity
%K Lingis
%K phenomenology
%U http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/Tom_Sparrow.pdf