Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

ISBN-13: 9780700704156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 288 str.

Sean Hand;Hand Sean

Opis

Emmanuel Levinas is considered a key philosopher in the post-Heideggerian field and a presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His works spans the major philosophical and ethical concers of the 20th century, combining the insights of a basic phenomenological training with the demands of a Jewish culture and its basis in the exegesis of Talmudic reading. His concerns and subjects include: the Other body, infinity, women, Jewish-Christian relations, Zionism and the impulses and limits of philosophical language itself. This collection explicates Levinas's contribution to these debates, namely the idea of the primacy of ethics over ontology or epistemology. It investigates how, in the wake of the post-structuralist orthodoxy, scholars and practitioners in such fields as literary theory, cultural studies, feminism and psychoanalysis are turning to Levinas's work to articulate a rediscovered concern with the ethical dimension of their discipline. It also stresses the Jewish dimension of Levinas's work.

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).