Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415107297 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str.

John Llewelyn;Llewelyn John

Opis

This is a study of Levinas's work. Following his philosophical works in roughly chronological order, it shows how Levinas's argument - that metaphysics is anarchically ethical - departs from the tradition culminating with Hegel from the thinking of contemporaries like Husserl and Heidegger. He examines in detail the relationship between Nietzsche's scripture after the death of God - so central to post-structuralism and post-modernism - and looks at the significance of the interruption by Levinas's genealogy of ethics of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals.

Recenzje

'This is one of the most significant book-length engagements with the thought of Levinas in any language. It is of the same order of importance as Derrida's seminal essay on Levinas, 'Violence and Metaphysics'. At this level and intensity of reading the distinction between original works and commentary falls away; here we are in the presence of thinking itself, with all its difficulty and opacity.' - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Spis treści

Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction, Part I, 1. Ontological claustrophobia, 2. Ontic accomplishment, 3. Before time, 4. Announcing time, 5. Announcing the Other, Part II, 6. Being faced, 7. Before and beyond the face, 8. The manifold of alterity, 9. From sensibility to sense, 10. Generations, Part III, 11. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 12. Atheology, 13. Anthology, 14. Tropes, 15. Ethical agoraphobia, Notes, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

John Llewelyn, following retirement from the University pf Edinburgh hs been visiting professor at Loyola University of Chicago and Memphis State University.