Dwelling in the In-Between: a Phenomenology of Hybrid Being

Dwelling in the In-Between is not a study of culture-it is a meditation on what it means to be fractured, to be hybrid, to exist without resolution. In this bold and lyrical work of philosophical depth, Noah Blake reimagines the subject not as a synthesis of identities but as an ontological tension: embodied, affective, and incomplete. Drawing on the concept of hibridación in Néstor García Canclini and Stuart Hall, and reinterpreting Gilberto Freyre's mestiçagem through Ricardo Benzaquen's critical lens, Blake excavates the lived ambiguities of Latin American subjectivity. This book stages a radical dialogue between cultural theory and phenomenology. It challenges the reduction of hybridity to pluralism or postmodern fusion and instead presents it as a fractured phenomenological condition-where the self is not defined by wholeness, but by contradiction. The moreno and the híbrido become not cultural figures, but philosophical events. Combining Husserl's insights on passive synthesis with the colonial intimacy of Brazilian history, Blake crafts a theory of the incomplete self. Here, hybridity is not a celebration-it is a wound that speaks. This is a book for those who read slowly, who listen deeply, and who believe thought begins where certainty ends. Dwelling in the In-Between is not about difference. It is difference made flesh.