The prestige of Alphonso Lingis as a translator, and his very personal philosophical voice, may explain why the philosophical community has not yet recognized the radical reorientation of phenomenology that has taken shape under Lingis’s pen for the last twenty years. Our hope is that by dedicating our first issue of Singularum to his invention of another phenomenology, this oversight may be corrected, and a new appreciation or education of the senses can get underway. We imagine this issue provoking, at last, attempts to understand Lingis’s difference in phenomenology, and the difference his phenomenology of levels makes to our appreciation of aesthetics, education, ethics, ontology, and perception.

In addition to the collection of essays below, we have a special interview with Alphonso Lingis, conducted by Bobby George and Tom Sparrow, an original poem by renowned poet Dorothea Lasky, and a series of letter exchanges between Alphonso Lingis and David Karnos.