Alphonso Lingis Author, Translator & Editor

Alphonso Lingis is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and the author of numerous books including The Imperative (Indiana, 1998), Dangerous Emotions (California, 2000), Trust (Minnesota, 2004), and most recently, Body Transformations (Routledge, 2005). He is also the preeminent English translator of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas. His translations include Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible (1961) and Pierre Klossowski's Sade My Neighbor (1991), both published by Northwestern University Press.