Levinas And The Crisis Of Humanism

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Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

Author : Claire Elise Katz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007623
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism written by Claire Elise Katz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's "Crisis of Humanism," which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.

Humanism of the Other

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

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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.

Political Responsibility for a Globalised World

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839416949
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Political Responsibility for a Globalised World written by Ernst Wolff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to reflect on the complex practice of responsibility within the context of a globalised world and contemporary means of action. Levinas' exploration of the ethical serves as point of entry and is shown to be seeking inter-cultural political relevance through engagement with the issues of postcoloniality and humanism. Yet, Levinas fails to realise the ethical implications of the inevitable instrumental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. With recourse to Weber, Apel and Ricoeur, Ernst Wolff proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice.

Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine

Author : Claire Elise Katz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253110777
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine by : Claire Elise Katz

Download or read book Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine written by Claire Elise Katz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging previous interpretations of Levinas that gloss over his use of the feminine or show how he overlooks questions raised by feminists, Claire Elise Katz explores the powerful and productive links between the feminine and religion in Levinas's work. Rather than viewing the feminine as a metaphor with no significance for women or as a means to reinforce traditional stereotypes, Katz goes beyond questions of sexual difference to reach a more profound understanding of the role of the feminine in Levinas's conception of ethical responsibility. She combines feminist interpretations of Levinas with interpretations that focus on his Jewish writings to reveal that the feminine provides an important bridge between his philosophy and his Judaism. Katz's reading of Levinas's conception of the feminine against the backdrop of discussions of women of the Hebrew bible points to important shifts in contemporary philosophy toward the creation of life and care for the other.

Levinas and Education

Author : Denise Egea-Kuehne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989400
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Levinas and Education written by Denise Egea-Kuehne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness and more, as its contributing authors address some fundamental educational issues such as: what it means to be a teacher; what it means to learn from a teacher; the role of language in the curriculum; literature, ethics, and education; moral education and human relations in schools; ethics of responsibility and philosophical-pedagogical discourse; educational hospitality and interculturalism; unconditional responsibility and education; educating for participatory democratic citizenship; the pedagogy of peace; logic, rationality, and ethics; connecting teaching to spirituality. Levinas always insisted that his aim was not to provide "a program," and accordingly, it is not the intent of the authors to look in Levinas's texts for a set of guidelines, rules, or precepts to be applied to education. Rather, this study invites educators, and researchers in philosophy and philosophy of education, to a thoughtful and critical reading of Levinas, and to engage with his unique style of analysis and questioning as they uncover with these authors the necessity and the possibility of thinking education anew in terms of ethics, justice, responsibility, hope and faith.

Levinas and Camus

Author : Tal Sessler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441195734
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Levinas and Camus written by Tal Sessler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book compares the respective oeuvre of two seminal thinkers of the 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. Tal Sessler compares their lasting legacies within the specific context of intellectual resistance to totalitarianism and political violence, with particular focus on their respective approaches to the Holocaust and genocide in the 20th century and, correspondingly, the question of theodicy and religious faith. Levinas and Camus explores each thinker's congruent and complimentary metaphysical and political rationale in opposing tyranny. Sessler emphasises the religious component in Levinas's depiction of Hitlerism as paganism (a perception that Camus shares), and the correlation between liberalism and monotheism. The book explores Levinas and Camus's reflections on the Holocaust and the question of theodicy and deals with their corresponding critiques of Stalinism and Hegelian philosophy of history. Sessler goes on to consider how Levinas and Camus would have contended with the central political issue of our own era, religious fundamentalism, and explicates the dualist nature of Israel and Algeria in the writings of Levinas and Camus.

In Search of the Good Life

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914792
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Good Life written by Paul Marcus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe, there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired, ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.

Collected Philosophical Papers

Author : E. Levinas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400943644
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Collected Philosophical Papers written by E. Levinas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Levinas's Jewish Thought

Author : Ephraim Meir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789654933131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Levinas's Jewish Thought written by Ephraim Meir and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates Levinas in the pantheon of modern Jewish thinkers, discussing a number of themes that frequently occur in Jewish thought. The author presents Levinas' oeuvre, which comprises two parts - his Jewish, 'confessional' writings and his philosophical, 'professional' writings - as a unity. The question of the exact relationship between these two types of writings is a lively discussion in present day scholarship. How does Levinas perceive the relationship between revelation and philosophy, the biblical address and the logos, the Saying and the said, faith and reason? There is a long oppositional tradition which contrasts Athens with Jerusalem, yet Levinas does not take part in such an antithetical tradition. Without reconciling or harmonizing, he belongs to the philosophical tradition as well as to the Jewish tradition. This double allegiance explains the presence of philosophical terms and themes in his Jewish thought and the presence of Jewish words and ideas in his metaphysics. Levinas is presented by the author as a frequent traveler between Athens and Jerusalem and as a great translator from 'Hebrew' to 'Greek'. However, the relationship between 'Hebrew' and 'Greek' in Levinas' writings is not one of prototext and phenotext or of subtext and text, but rather one of a primordial inspirational word and the conceptual discourse. In an inclusive reading, Meir shows that the acquaintance with Levinas' Jewish writings is helpful in understanding his subtle philosophical analysis and a necessary condition for the understanding of the whole Levinas.

An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought

Author : Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804774242
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought written by Stefanos Geroulanos and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojève, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyré, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Hyppolite argued that man could no longer fill the void left by the "death of God" without also calling up the worst in human history and denigrating the dignity of the human subject. In response, they contributed to a new belief that man should no longer be viewed as the basis for existence, thought, and ethics; rather, human nature became dependent on other concepts and structures, including Being, language, thought, and culture. This argument, which was to be paramount for existentialism and structuralism, came to dominate postwar thought. This intellectual history of these developments argues that at their heart lay a new atheism that rejected humanism as insufficient and ultimately violent.

Twilight of Jewish Philosophy

Author : Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134412460
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of Jewish Philosophy written by Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Responses to a Pandemic

Author : Anna Gotlib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538154056
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Responses to a Pandemic written by Anna Gotlib and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic—for us, for our country, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic and what, if anything, can be done? Who is most impacted—and why does it seem that so many of the same people are, once again, deemed expendable and "less-than"? How do we explain COVID-19 and its attendant traumas to our children, and what do we teach them about hope, justice, grief, and the role of imagination in survival? And once the worst has passed, how do we start again, and what should we care about as we contemplate individual and collective repair? In this collection of public and political philosophy, philosophers come together to address these and other questions born of a devastating pandemic to which they are neither objective spectators nor external observers insulated by the passage of time. The contributors to this volume are both grounded in, and immediately affected by, their own lived realities as source material for the questions that move and motivate them. Contributors: Alexios Alexander, J. S. Biehl, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir, Daniel Conway, Barrett Emerick, Anna Gotlib, Ruth Groenhout, Claire Katz, Eva Feder Kittay, Corey McCall, Jamie Lindemann Nelson, Jennifer Scuro, Kevin Timpe, Vanessa Wills

Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9460911773
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In academia, the effects of the “cultural turn” have been felt deeply. In everyday life, tenets from cultural politics have influenced how people behave or regard their options for action, such as the reconfiguration of social movements, protests, and praxis in general.

Between Levinas and Heidegger

Author : John E. Drabinski
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452578
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Between Levinas and Heidegger written by John E. Drabinski and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophys most pressing issues. Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserls phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simpleand accurateoppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.

Beyond Learning

Author : Gert J. J. Biesta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317263162
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Learning written by Gert J. J. Biesta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.

Emmanuel Levinas

Author : Salomon Malka
Publisher : Duquesne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Emmanuel Levinas written by Salomon Malka and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth biography of Emmanuel Lévinas, twentieth century ethical philosopher and religious thinker, that details Levinas's life and his contributions to modern continental thought. Malka's journalistic approach includes personal accounts from Lévinas's family, friends, colleagues and students"--Provided by publisher.

Levinas

Author : Nicholas Bunnin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444309633
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Levinas written by Nicholas Bunnin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one anotherto explore the writings of one of the twentieth century’smost perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers. Comparative discussion of Lévinas on phenomenology,ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within Europeanphilosophy and with Chinese philosophy Innovative accounts of Lévinasian themes of surpassingphenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy ofsaintliness, transcendence and immanence, time and sensibility,desire, death, political philosophy, the subject, and the space ofcommunicativity