Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics

✍ Scribed by John Llewelyn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taking as its guiding thread the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of sensibility, religion, enjoyment, femininity, eros, justice and the political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of chapters that give a hesitant but tolerant discussion of the question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and metaphorics.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I......Page 21
A NEW WAY OF POSING AN OLD PROBLEM......Page 22
ESCAPE......Page 24
NEED......Page 27
PLEASURE......Page 29
SHAME......Page 30
NAUSEA......Page 31
CONCRETENESS......Page 33
CONSTITUTION......Page 36
HYPOSTASIS......Page 38
DEDUCTION......Page 40
METHOD......Page 43
LASSITUDE......Page 45
DILATORINESS......Page 46
FATIGUE......Page 49
SOLITUDE......Page 51
ASSUMPTIONS......Page 53
FROM TIME TO TIME......Page 55
ON THE WAY FROM THE FUTURE......Page 58
THE MOMENT OF WAITING......Page 62
BETWEEN SLEEPING AND WAKING......Page 63
DOGMATIC SLUMBER......Page 66
EV(E)IL......Page 69
Part II......Page 71
DISPLACEMENT......Page 72
EFFACEMENT......Page 75
ECONOMY AND ETHICS......Page 76
BEFORE THE FACE......Page 79
OF DRAMATOLOGY......Page 80
ENJOYMENT......Page 85
THE HOME......Page 91
MASTER AND MISTRESS......Page 94
THE SAME......Page 96
ALIMENT AND ELEMENT......Page 97
WORDS OF DISCRETE AND INDISCRETE WELCOME......Page 100
THE GARDEN OF EDEN......Page 102
A NEW DIMENSION......Page 107
THE DEALING OF DEATH......Page 110
THE DELAYING OF DEATH......Page 111
EXPERIENCE PAR EXCELLENCE......Page 114
ABSOLUTE EMPIRICISM......Page 118
PRENATAL CARE......Page 121
EROT(ET)OLOGY......Page 123
THE ANALOGY OF LOVING......Page 125
ILYAITY, ILLEITY AND ELLEITY......Page 130
FECUNDITY AND FILIATION......Page 134
Part III......Page 139
FRATERNITY......Page 140
JUSTICE......Page 143
ETHICS, POLITICS AND VIOLENCE......Page 144
MATERNITY AND ENIGMA......Page 148
AMEN......Page 151
LONG LIVE GOD......Page 158
ULTRA-AND ALTER-HUMANISM......Page 163
METAPHORS......Page 164
QUASI-METAPHORS......Page 168
BEYOND METAPHORICS?......Page 174
BEYOND QUESTION?......Page 176
AMPHIBOLOGIES......Page 180
POETICS......Page 181
PROPHETICS......Page 184
THE EXCESS OF IDENTITY......Page 187
THE PROPHETIC PRODUCTION OF ART......Page 191
AN ALEPHBET OF TROPES......Page 195
PERSECUTION......Page 197
BLASPHEMY......Page 203
GENEALOGY AS HISTORY CATASTROPHIZED......Page 206
Notes......Page 211
BOOK-LENGTH STUDIES OF LEVINAS’S WORKS......Page 226
COLLECTIONS, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS......Page 227
Index......Page 230