β Scribed by Emmanuel Levinas, Alphonso Lingis
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Existence and Existents was written mostly during Levinas's imprisonment in World War II, and provides the first sketch of his mature thought -- later developed in Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being, or Beyond Essence (also published by Duquesne University Press). Levinas's project in Existence and Existents is to move from anonymous existence to the emergence of subjectivity; to subjectivity's practice, theory and morality; to its encounter with the alterity of the other person. He is concerned here primarily with the time of the solitary subject; time is the inner structure of subjectivity, of the movement of existing. Existence and Existents introduces the major themes and concerns that occupied Levinas throughout his career. It is essential reading for understanding both Levinas's own philosophy and the developments in philosophical thought in the twentieth century.
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Existence -- Existent -- Vintage books -- Introduction -- Varieties of existentialisms -- Being -- Action -- The existent -- The free existent and the free eternal purposes -- Ecce in pace.
Further developing themes laid out in earlier works, specifically truth and ignorance as it relates to Being. The prose is dense at times, and you can tell in many places that this book was published unfinished-once in a while the ideas meander or are not clearly defined. Nevertheless, I found it
Logic and Existence, which originally appeared in 1952, completes the project Hyppolite began with Genesis and Structure of Hegelβs Phenomenology of Spirit. Taking up successively the role of language, reflection, and categories in Hegelβs Science of Logic, Hyppolite illuminates Hegelianismβs most o