BIBFRAME Work

Title

Coexistence

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Simpson, Paul, 1983- (author )

Subject

• Space and time (LCSH)
• Spatial behavior--Social aspects (LCSH)
• Human geography--Philosophy (LCSH)
• Disposition (Philosophy) (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: GF21 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 910/.01 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"This book aims to develop an account of living together with difference which recognises the tension that we are inescapably with others - both human and non-human - but at the same time are always differing from and with those with whom we find ourselves. A concern for coexistence and questions over how we might live together have been raised and approached from a host of conceptual starting points in recent times, including via calls for a rethinking of communism today, the articulation of forms of 'cosmopolitics' or 'pluralism', the re-figuring of understandings of ecology as dark or feminist, amongst others. This book responds to such questions of coexistence by developing what it calls a 'co-existential analytic'. In doing so, this book introduces a range of post-phenomenological thought which offers means for thinking about such questions of living together with difference. The thought of Emanuel Levinas on the face of the other, Jean-Luc Nancy on being as being-with, Roberto Esposito on the munis, and Michel Henry on pathic auto-affection are introduced and critically reflected upon in terms of what they offer for thinking about such coexistence. Alongside these conceptual starting points, a series of encounters - with cinema, everyday life, politics, and literature - are used to animate and illustration the discussion. Ultimately, the book argues for a 'spacing' of subjectivities with that world and those encountered within it. This book is intended primarily for researchers and postgraduate students interested in questions of identity, difference, and subjectivity. It will be of interest to those in the fields of social and cultural geography, sociology, social theory, and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking subjectivity in the spacing of the world -- The curvature in relating: Levinas and the face of the Other -- Being-with others: Nancy and the presencing of self and other -- Immunizing the self from others: Esposito and the disturbance of the -- munus -- The impression of the appearing world: Henry, auto-affection, and life -- Conclusion: Spacing self; Distributing us.

Authorized Access Point

Simpson, Paul, 1983-. Coexistence

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:04.717118+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23874771

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
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