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I have read most of Lingis' books over the past few years and I have admired all of them but this one really stands out. His ability to involve himself personally with his subjects makes it very difficult to pinpoint what is so brilliant about his work. If it has a genre, that genre must be called philosophical anthropology but the work also contains powerful psychological observations and interpretations and a lot of it also comes across as a high brow form of journalistic feature writing. He writes movingly about an Australian couple who met in jail, about a child prostitute sitting with her doll and just as movingly about Che Guevara. The chapter on Friedrich Nietzsche and religion is the freshest and most engaging discussion of Nietzsche I have seen in years. Lingis' passionate description of virility is beautiful and exciting and reads like a call to arms. His work seems to come straight from a very passionate heart while also easily utilizing the tools of a lifetime's worth of stunning erudition. This is the work of a fully engaged, passionate humanist who is using his peregrinations across the globe to create the fullest and most intensely beautiful picture of humanity in all its forms ever attempted by any creature who dares to call himself a philosopher.