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...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is desti...
Heidegger s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names the fourfold a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals and Mitchell s book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger s later thought. As such it provides entree to the full landscape of Heidegger s postwar thinking, offering striking new interpretations of the atomic bomb, technology, plants, animals, weather, time, language, the holy, mortality, dwelling,...
Heidegger s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of wha...