The Cambridge Introduction To Emmanuel Levinas
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Author | : Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011-03-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 113949807X |
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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.
Author | : Simon Critchley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002-07-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521665650 |
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A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.
Author | : Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781139077583 |
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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's central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships with other people. 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. The book includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. It will be an excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work, and even for those without a background in philosophy.
Author | : Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2007-05-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139464736 |
Download Discovering Levinas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Adriaan T. Peperzak |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253013364 |
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Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development and the basic themes of his writings. Each essay is accompanied by a brief introduction and notes. This collection is an ideal text for students of philosophy concerned with understanding and assessing the work of this major philosopher.
Author | : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781557530240 |
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"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)
Author | : Merold Westphal |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2008-06-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253219663 |
Download Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue is an insightful and accessible contribution to philosophical considerations of ethics and religion.
Author | : James R. Mensch |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0810130548 |
Download Levinas's Existential Analytic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas’s discussion of “the Other,” yet it is known as a “difficult” book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith’s commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas’s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas’s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas’s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with regard to Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida. Students using this book alongside Totality and Infinity will be able to follow its arguments and grasp the subtle phenomenological analyses that fill it.
Author | : Michael Fagenblat |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110668998 |
Download Levinas and Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.
Author | : Sean Hand |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631164470 |
Download The Levinas Reader Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further.