Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.
Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
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- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 206
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.
โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1 The Feminine, Otherness, Dwelling: Feminist Perspectives on Levinas
2 On Substitution
3 Levinas and Freud: Talmudic Inflections in Ethics and Psychoanalysis
4 Shadowing Ethics: Levinas's View of Art and Aesthetics
5 'Let's Leave God Out of This': Maurice Blanchot's Reading of Totality and Infinity
6 Infinition and Apophanisis: Reverberations of Spinoza in Levinas
7 A Supreme Heteronomy? Arche and Topology in Difficult Freedom
8 Levinas and the Jewish Ideal of the Sage
9 On Time and Salvation: The Eschatology of Emmanuel Levinas
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