Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas

ISBN-13: 9780521801584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 372 str.

Richard A. Cohen

Opis

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) is now widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of Biblical interpretation. Richard A. Cohen's book expands on Levinas' work to explore broader questions of interpretation in ethical thinking. Levinas' views of philosophy are considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches, such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing that he terms "ethical exegesis."

Recenzje

'… the collection stands as, and can indeed be recommended as, a state-of-the-art reader in the interpretation and criticism of one of the foremost moral philosophers in the Continental tradition.' The Heythrop Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis; Part I. Exceeding Phenomenology: 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age; 2. Science: phenomenology, intuition and philosophy; 3. The good work of Edmund Husserl; 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger; Part II. Good and Evil: 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus; 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy; 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis; 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil; 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem; 10. In conclusion; Index.