Discovering Levinas

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464736
Total Pages : 47 pages
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Book Synopsis Discovering Levinas by : Michael L. Morgan

Download or read book Discovering Levinas written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Discovering Existence with Husserl

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810113619
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Book Synopsis Discovering Existence with Husserl by : Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Discovering Existence with Husserl written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects most of Levinas' articles on Husserlian phenomenology, gathering together a wealth of exposition and interpretation by one of the most important 20th century European philosophers.

The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949807X
Total Pages : 271 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas by : Michael L. Morgan

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas' central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships. He explores the religious, cultural and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture and how it relates to our conception of selfhood and what it is to be a person, our understanding of the ground of moral values, our experience of time and the meaning of history, and our experience of religious concepts and discourse. Includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. An excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work and even for those without a background in philosophy.

God, Death, and Time

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804736664
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis God, Death, and Time by : Emmanuel Lévinas

Download or read book God, Death, and Time written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

To the Other

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530240
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis To the Other by : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak

Download or read book To the Other written by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)

Of God Who Comes to Mind

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804730945
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis Of God Who Comes to Mind by : Emmanuel Lévinas

Download or read book Of God Who Comes to Mind written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word "God" can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. Nine of the essays appear in English translation for the first time. Among Levinas's writings, this volume distinguishes itself, both for students of his thought and for a wider audience, by the range of issues it addresses. Levinas not only rehearses the ethical themes that have led him to be regarded as one of the most original thinkers working out of the phenomenological tradition, but he also takes up philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion. The volume situates his thought in a broader intellectual context than have his previous works. In these essays, alongside the detailed investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, Rosenzweig, and Buber that characterize all his writings, Levinas also addresses the thought of Kierkegaard, Marx, Bloch, and Derrida. Some essays provide lucid expositions not available elsewhere to key areas of Levinas's thought. "God and Philosophy" is perhaps the single most important text for understanding Levinas and is in many respects the best introduction to his works. "From Consciousness to Wakefulness" illuminates Levinas's relation to Husserl and thus to phenomenology, which is always his starting point, even if he never abides by the limits it imposes. In "The Thinking of Being and the Question of the Other," Levinas not only addresses Derrida's Speech and Phenomenon but also develops an answer to the later Heidegger's account of the history of Being by suggesting another way of reading that history. Among the other topics examined in the essays are the Marxist concept of ideology, death, hermeneutics, the concept of evil, the philosophy of dialogue, the relation of language to the Other, and the acts of communication and mutual understanding.

Discovering Levinas

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ISBN 13 : 9780511290473
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Book Synopsis Discovering Levinas by : Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan

Download or read book Discovering Levinas written by Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Nine Talmudic Readings

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040507
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Nine Talmudic Readings by : Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Nine Talmudic Readings written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Altered Reading

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226721132
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Altered Reading by : Jill Robbins

Download or read book Altered Reading written by Jill Robbins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied readily as a critical method to literary texts. Yet Levinas's work, studded as it is with literary sources and quotations, demands a literary account. With an attitude at once respectful and interrogative, closely attentive to Levinas's texts while in dialogue with readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, Altered Reading shows how the thread of the literary leads directly to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. Jill Robbins provides a comprehensive critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later key transitional essays. In an invaluable appendix, she includes her own translation of an important, previously untranslated essay by Bataille on Levinas. Altered Reading will interest philosophers, literary critics, scholars of religion, and others drawn to Levinas's work.

Humanism of the Other

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028403
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Humanism of the Other by : Emmanuel Lévinas

Download or read book Humanism of the Other written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, a philosophical reaction to prevailing nihilism in the 1960's is urgent reading today when a new sort of nihilism, parading in the very garments of humanism, threatens to engulf our civilization. ---- A key text in Levinas' work, introduces the concept of the humanity of each human being as only understood and discovered through understanding the humanity of others first.

Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820820
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Book Synopsis Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas by : Robert Gibbs

Download or read book Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas written by Robert Gibbs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and Christianity were markedly dissimilar. To Gibbs, however, the two thinkers possess basic affinities with each other. The book offers important insights into how philosophy is continually being altered by its encounter with other traditions.

Alterity and Transcendence

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231116510
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Alterity and Transcendence by : Emmanuel Lévinas

Download or read book Alterity and Transcendence written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive--not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.

Time and the Other

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ISBN 13 : 9780820702339
Total Pages : 149 pages
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Download or read book Time and the Other written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel Levinas is a major voice in twentieth century European thought. Beginning his intellectual career in the 1920s, he has developed an original and comprehensive post rationalist ethics of social responsibility and obligation. The influence of his work has already been profound and far-reaching, readily acknowledged by such diverse and important figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, and Enrique Dussel. Time and The Other was first presented as a series of lectures in 1946-47 at the College Philosophique and is probably the clearest statement of Levinas' thought. Along with Existence and Existents (1947), it represents the first formulation of Levinas' own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759421
Total Pages : 253 pages
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Book Synopsis The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by : Diane Perpich

Download or read book The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas written by Diane Perpich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.

Vigilant Memory

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801888840
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Vigilant Memory written by R. Clifton Spargo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers a new explanation of its significance in relation to history. In critical readings of the limits and also the heretofore untapped possibilities of Levinasian ethics, Spargo explores the impact of the Holocaust on Levinas's various figures of injustice while examining the place of mourning, the bad conscience, the victim, and the stranger/neighbor as they appear in Levinas's work. Ultimately, Spargo ranges beyond Levinas's explicit philosophical or implicit political positions to calculate the necessary function of the "memory of injustice" in our cultural and political discourses on the characteristics of a just society. In this original and magisterial study, Spargo uses Levinas's work to approach our understanding of the suffering and death of others, and in doing so reintroduces an essential ethical element to the reading of literature, culture, and everyday life.

Levinas Unhinged

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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782790578
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Book Synopsis Levinas Unhinged by : Tom Sparrow

Download or read book Levinas Unhinged written by Tom Sparrow and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. More than a work of academic commentary that would leave many of Levinas s pious commentators aghast, Sparrow exhibits an aspect of Levinas which is darker, yet no less fundamental, than his ethical and theological guises. This darkened Levinas provides answers to problems in aesthetics, speculative philosophy, ecology, ethics, and philosophy of race, problems which not only trouble scholars, but which haunt anyone who insists that the material of existence is the beginning and end of existence itself.

Outside the Subject

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721998
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Book Synopsis Outside the Subject by : Emmanuel Lévinas

Download or read book Outside the Subject written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fourteen pieces selected by Levinas himself in 1987 from a large body of uncollected essays.