Re-reading Levinas
Re-reading Levinas

Author: Robert Bernasconi

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1991-05-22

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780253206244

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These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's account of responsibility. The re-reading presented here continues and expands on the long-standing debate between Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Published in English for the first time are two key texts in this debate: "Wholly Otherwise" by Levinas and "At this very moment in this work here I am" by Derrida.

Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas

Author: Adriaan T. Peperzak

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-11-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0253013364

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development and the basic themes of his writings. Each essay is accompanied by a brief introduction and notes. This collection is an ideal text for students of philosophy concerned with understanding and assessing the work of this major philosopher.

Beyond
Beyond

Author: Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780810114814

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Although Emmanuel Levinas is widely respected as one of the classic thinkers of our century, the debate about his place within Continental philosophy continues. In Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak shows Levinas's thought to be a persistent attempt to point beyond the borders of an economy where orderly interests and ways of reasoning make us feel at home--beyond the world of needs, beyond the self, beyond politics and administration, beyond logic and ontology, even beyond freedom and autonomy. Peperzak's examination begins with a general overview of Levinas's life and thought, and shows how issues of ethics, politics, and religion are intertwined in Levinas's philosophy. Peperzak also discusses the development of Levinas's relations with Husserl and Heidegger, demonstrating thematically the evolution of both Levinas's anti-Heideggerian view of technology and his critical attitude toward nature.

Levinas and Literature
Levinas and Literature

Author: Michael Fagenblat

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 3110668998

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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

Levinas Studies
Levinas Studies

Author: Jeffrey Bloechl

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820703718

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This book is dedicated to scholarly work on the innovations and implications of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. One volume of original essays will appear each year, edited by series director Jeffrey Bloechl, aided by an international editorial board. The series invites papers contributing to the advancement of reflection on Levinas's thinking, in its pertinence for fields including philosophy, psychology, religious studies, theology, and the study of literature. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Entre Nous
Entre Nous

Author: Emmanuel Levinas

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-06-13

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780826490797

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. It gathers his important work and reveals the development of his thought. It looks at issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory.

Levinas's Existential Analytic
Levinas's Existential Analytic

Author: James R. Mensch

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0810130548

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By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas’s discussion of “the Other,” yet it is known as a “difficult” book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith’s commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas’s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas’s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas’s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with regard to Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida. Students using this book alongside Totality and Infinity will be able to follow its arguments and grasp the subtle phenomenological analyses that fill it.

Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas

Author: Abi Doukhan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-08-23

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1441195769

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A comprehensive and original approach to Levinas's philosophy, his ethics, politics, aesthetics, epistemology and metaphysics, in the context of his conception of exile.

Levinas and Theology
Levinas and Theology

Author: Michael Purcell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 1139447394

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Emmanuel Levinas was a significant contributor to the field of philosophy, phenomenology and religion. A key interpreter of Husserl, he stressed the importance of attitudes to other people in any philosophical system. For Levinas, to be a subject is to take responsibility for others as well as yourself and therefore responsibility for the one leads to justice for the many. He regarded ethics as the foundation for all other philosophy, but later admitted it could also be the foundation for theology. Michael Purcell outlines the basic themes of Levinas' thought and the ways in which they might be deployed in fundamental and practical theology, and the study of the phenomenon of religion. This book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as those with a theological background who are approaching Levinas for the first time.