Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

ISBN-13: 9780415592505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Sean Hand;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

A study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Feminine, Otherness, Dwelling, Alison Ainley; Chapter 2 On Substitution, David F. Ford; Chapter 3 Levinas and Freud, Steven Gans; Chapter 4 Shadowing Ethics, Seán Hand; Chapter 5 ‘Let’s Leave God Out of This’, Michael Holland; Chapter 6 Infinition and Apophansis, Benjamin Hutchens; Chapter 7 A Supreme Heteronomy?, Philip Leonard; Chapter 8 Levinas and the Jewish Ideal of the Sage, A. H. Lesser; Chapter 9 On Time and Salvation, Graham Ward;

O autorze

Seán Hand is Professor of French and Head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also author of Emmanuel Levinas (Routledge, 2008), editor of The Levinas Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, reprint) and translator of Levinas’s Difficult Freedom (Johns Hopkins, 2010, 9^th reprint). He is equally author of Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris (Legenda, 2004).