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	Filosofia: ADINA BOZGA Ha studiato filosofia e scienze politiche a Bucarest, Romania. Ha ottenuto il PHD in Filosofia nel 2003 presso l' University of Warwick, UK. E' l'autrice di una serie di articoli in fenomenologia e membro del comitato editoriale di «Studia Phaenomenologica». I suoi attuali interessi di ricerca includono la filosofia sociale e politica, e la fenomenologia. THE EXASPERATING GIFT OF SINGULARITY HUSSERL, LEVINAS, HENRY 2009 ZETA Books, Bucharest INDICE Introduction PART ONE: Phenomenology on Singularity (Husserl) I.The Problem and its Background II. The Primitive Sense–Data, or Noncompounded Singulars III. The Manifold–Unitary Singulars or Singularity as Particularity IV. The Pre–phenomenal: Singularity as Uniqueness PART TWO: Phenomenology of Singularity (E. Levinas and M. Henry) V. Levinas on the Singularising Singularity of the Other VI. Michel Henry on the Singular Ipseity of Life Conclusion In this book Adina Bozga attempts to make room for what she calls a phenomenology of singularity. Bozga believes that Edmund Husserl's phenomenology undermines the possibility of an adequate phenomenological account of the singular, however she maintains that the singular can be retrieved by radicalising the phenomenological project. She illustrates this by  focusing on the manner in which phenomenology understands the phenomena of time, the self and the world. In the first part of her book Bozga argues that Husserl's phenomenology makes room for what she calls ‘a phenomenology on singuarlity'. This comes to light when studying Husserl's account of sensuous hyle , the individual, the transcendental Ego and the world. However, she argues that Husserl fails to provide for a phenomenology of singularity since according to Husserl, phenomenology can and should only describe what is given to the synthetic structure of intentional consciousness. Since the singular refers to a unity that is absolutely original and cannot be appropriated by the reflective gaze of consciousness - it refers to a non-phenomenon that refuses to be given - it thus appears that the singular has to remain outside the realm of phenomenological description. To avoid this conclusion, Bozga argues that if phenomenology wishes to remain true to its principle, namely, to ‘return to the things themselves', it should facilitate the return to such a primal ‘non-synthetic singular'. In the second part of the book she there foresets herself the task of exploring whether such a return is possible within the phenomenological project. Initially Bozga focuses on Emmanuel Levinas' work to show that we can account for the singular either by pointing to a radical transcendence or to a radical immanence. She believes the latter to be truer to the spirit of phenomenology and illustrates this point by turning to the work of Michel Henry. According to Bozga, Henry provides a way toward a phenomenology of singularity. Henry believes that thereis a pre-phenomenal auto-affected and incarnate life that can never be integrated into the intentional structure of consciousness without doing violence. Since this life lies outside the reflective grasp of the ego, Henry argues that we can only account for it by radicalising the reduction, that is, by suspending synthetic thought. This suspension manifests itself in the form of suffering, as it questions the spontaneity of the Ego. Bozga thus shows that the non-synthetic singular can ‘manifests' itself, not as something that is given or present to consciousness, but as a gift to which the subject is always already ‘sub-jected'. Bozga explores how we can account for such a life. The problem seems to be that if it lies outside the synthetic structure of intentional consciousness, then it lies outside philosophy as well. It is thus not surprising that Henry draws on religious themes in order to account for such a life. Yet the question arises whether there is not another mode of experience that is neither theoretical nor religious.   Il presente volume riguarda il concetto che, alla luce dei lavori di Husserl, Levinas e Henry, la fenomenologia ha un importante contributo da dare alla questione della singolarità. Dimostra inoltre che il concetto di una singolare datità, e/o della datità della singolarità è altamente consequentiale al giustificare i punti di vista alternativi ad una forma tradizionale della fenomenologia. "Il libro è estremamente attuale poichè tocca temi che sono di fondamentale importanza all'interno della tradizione fenomenologica in Francia oggi. Particolarmente impressionante è l'utilizzo di Bogza di Michel Henry, il quale è molto poco conosciuto in lingua inglese e il cui lavoro è ancora in via di traduzione. Ci auguriamo che questo libro porterà interesse a questo lavoro, la qual cosa è un antico desiderio" (Lilian Alweiss)