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Book Face to Face with Levinas

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  • Author : Richard A. Cohen
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791499367
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Face to Face with Levinas written by Richard A. Cohen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas scholars in the United States and Europe—Maurice Blanchot, Luce Trigaray, Theodore De Boer, Adriaan Peperzak, Jan de Greef, Alphonso Lingis. Most notably, it features an interview with Levinas by Richard Kearney. This elaborate interview provides a succinct introduction to the themes developed within the book and allows Levinas to restate his philosophy in light of the criticisms that follow. The contributions range from the imaginative to the academi Together they provide a well-focused introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas' philosophy..

Book Face to Face with Levinas

Download or read book Face to Face with Levinas written by Richard A. Cohen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas' philosophy.

Book Face to Face with Levinas

Download or read book Face to Face with Levinas written by Richard A. Cohen and published by Marcombo. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas scholars in the United States and Europe—Maurice Blanchot, Luce Trigaray, Theodore De Boer, Adriaan Peperzak, Jan de Greef, Alphonso Lingis. Most notably, it features an interview with Levinas by Richard Kearney. This elaborate interview provides a succinct introduction to the themes developed within the book and allows Levinas to restate his philosophy in light of the criticisms that follow.

Book Face to Face with Animals

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  • Author : Peter Atterton
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 1438474105
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Face to Face with Animals written by Peter Atterton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surrounding the moral status of animals in Levinas's work. The book offers ten essays by leading scholars, along with a general introduction that places Levinas's philosophy in the context of the growing field of animal ethics. The aim of the volume is to encourage dialogue on how we can extend Levinas's ethics beyond its traditional human confines and to spur further research on the opportunities and challenges it raises.

Book The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas

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.

Book The Face of the Other   the Trace of God

Download or read book The Face of the Other the Trace of God written by Jeffrey Bloechl and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays on the work of one of the great thinkers of twentieth-century Europe. The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl, Levinas scholar and specialist in the philosophy of religion and contemporary European philosophy, and broadly divided into two parts—relations with the other, and the questions of God—this collection includes contributions by Bloechl, Didier Franck, John D. Caputo, Rudi Visker, Rudolf Bernet, Jean-Luc Marion, Merold Westphal, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Roger Burggraeve, Michael Newman, Robert Bernasconi, and Paul Moyaert.

Book The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

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.

Book Psychotherapy for the Other

Download or read book Psychotherapy for the Other written by Kevin C. Krycka and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "14 essays by a wide range of scholars and practitioners examine the interface between Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical thought and psychotherapy, highlighting a variety of issues such as the nature of language, the therapist-client relationship, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, motherhood, social justice, among others"--Provided by publisher.

Book Discovering Levinas

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  • Author : Michael L. Morgan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-05-28
  • ISBN : 1139464736
  • Pages : 47 pages

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.

Book Levinas   Totality and Infinity

Download or read book Levinas Totality and Infinity written by William Large and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity is a monumental work of phenomenological enquiry that goes on to assert the centrality of ethics to philosophical thought. This Reader's Guide provides a detailed explanation of the work, breaking down the occasionally intimidating but always inspirational content of Totality and Infinity for non-specialist readers, unpacking the complexities of Levinas' thought with clarity and rigour. Ideal for students coming to Levinas for the first time, the book offers essential guidance, outlining key themes, approaches to reading the text, the reception, and influence of the work, and recommends secondary reading materials.

Book The Intersubjectivity of Time

Download or read book The Intersubjectivity of Time written by Yael Lin and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhaustive look at Levinas's primary texts, both his philosophical writings and writings on Judaism, brings together his various perspectives on time and concludes that we can extract a coherent and consistent conception of time from Levinas's thought, one that is distinctly political. Thus, this study elucidates Levinas's claim that time is actually constituted via social relationships"--Provided by publisher.

Book Radicalizing Levinas

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1438430981
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Radicalizing Levinas written by and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Entre Nous

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  • Author : Emmanuel Levinas
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2006-06-13
  • ISBN : 9780826490797
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Entre Nous written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Totality and Infinity

Download or read book Totality and Infinity written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Levinas

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Levinas written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes--the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others--speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida. And there are essays on how his thinking has been appropriated in moral and political thought, psychology, film criticism, and more, and on the relation between his thinking and religious themes and traditions. Finally, several essays deal primarily with how readers have criticized him and found him wanting. The volume exposes and explores both the depth of Levinas's philosophical work and the range of applications to which it has been put, with special attention to clarifying why his interests in the human condition, the crisis of civilization, the centrality and character of ethics and morality, and the very meaning of human experience should be of interest to the widest range of readers.

Book A Covenant of Creatures

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  • Author : Michael Fagenblat
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-03
  • ISBN : 0804774684
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book A Covenant of Creatures written by Michael Fagenblat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.

Book Levinas and the Torah

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  • Author : Richard I. Sugarman
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2019-08-23
  • ISBN : 1438475748
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Levinas and the Torah written by Richard I. Sugarman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas's religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach, drawing on both Levinas's philosophical and Jewish writings. Sugarman puts Levinas in conversation with biblical commentators both classical and modern, including Rashi, Maimonides, Sforno, Hirsch, and Soloveitchik. He particularly highlights Levinas's work on the Talmud and the Holocaust. Levinas's reading is situated against the background of a renewed understanding of such phenomena as covenant, promise, different modalities of time, and justice. The volume is organized to reflect the fifty-four portions of the Torah read during the Jewish liturgical year. A preface provides an overview of Levinas's life, approach, and place in contemporary Jewish thought. The reader emerges with a deeper understanding of both the Torah and the philosophy of a key Jewish thinker.