A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.
Author: William G. S. Huxley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521665655
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 292
View: 416
A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognized alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century.
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521662060
Category: Philosophy
Page: 324
View: 433
Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognized alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. His work has had a profound impact on a number of fields outside philosophy--such as theology, Jewish studies, literature and cultural theory, psychotherapy, sociology, political theory, international relations theory and critical legal theory.Simon Critchley, “Introduction,” in The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, edited
by Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002), 6. 11. Hilary Putnam, “Levinas and Judaism,” in The Cambridge ...
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190910693
Category: Philosophy
Page: 800
View: 555
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes--the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others--speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida. And there are essays on how his thinking has been appropriated in moral and political thought, psychology, film criticism, and more, and on the relation between his thinking and religious themes and traditions. Finally, several essays deal primarily with how readers have criticized him and found him wanting. The volume exposes and explores both the depth of Levinas's philosophical work and the range of applications to which it has been put, with special attention to clarifying why his interests in the human condition, the crisis of civilization, the centrality and character of ethics and morality, and the very meaning of human experience should be of interest to the widest range of readers.Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 66. 27. Robbins, Altered Reading, 47–48. 28.
Gerald L Bruns, “The Concepts of Art and Poetry in Emmanuel Levinas's Writings,
” The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, eds. Simon Critchley and Robert ...
Author: Yael Lin
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739182833
Category: Philosophy
Page: 236
View: 218
Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas.Bibliography. Alford, C. (2002), 'The opposite of totality: Levinas and the Frankfurt
School', Theory and Society, 31(2): 229–54. ... in S. Critchley and R. Bernasconi (
eds), The Cambridge Companion to Lévinas, Cambridge University Press, pp.
Author: Will Buckingham
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781441134905
Category: Philosophy
Page: 176
View: 114
The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas's work. By asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas's ethics of responsibility. It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with ethical dangers; but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.Boothroyd, David (2009) 'Beyond suffering I have no alibi', in Simon Critchley and
Robert Bernasconi (eds), The Cambridge companion to Levinas (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), pp. 150–64. Brennan, Geoffreyand Philip Pettit ...
Author: B. Nooteboom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230371019
Category: Philosophy
Page: 250
View: 168
This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this, it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations.Levinas: Judaism. and. the. Primacy. of. the. Ethical. richard. a. cohen. God tells
us to be holy, not meaning that we ought to imitate Him, but that we ought to strive
to approximate to the unattainable ideal of holiness. Immanuel Kant, Lectures ...
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139826778
Category: Religion
Page:
View: 472
Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonomy and authority, the problem of evil, messianism, the influence of Kant, and feminism. Included are essays on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, and Levinas. Other thinkers discussed include Maimon, Benjamin, Derrida, Scholem, and Arendt. The sixteen original essays are written by a world-renowned group of scholars especially for this volume and give a broad and rich picture of the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy over a period of four centuries.There is an excellent biography of Levinas written by one his students at the
École Normale Israélite Orientale: Malka, ... Bernasconi, R. and Critchley, S. (eds)
, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, ...
Author: William Large
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472531889
Category: Philosophy
Page: 176
View: 210
Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity is a monumental work of phenomenological enquiry that goes on to assert the centrality of ethics to philosophical thought. This Reader's Guide provides a detailed explanation of the work, breaking down the occasionally intimidating but always inspirational content of Totality and Infinity for non-specialist readers, unpacking the complexities of Levinas' thought with clarity and rigour. Ideal for students coming to Levinas for the first time, the book offers essential guidance, outlining key themes, approaches to reading the text, the reception, and influence of the work, and recommends secondary reading materials.EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND THE DEFORM ALIZATION OF TIME When asked
toward the end of his long career what he ... free power, but by a responsibility for
the other, which comes from the other" (The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, p
.
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402037171
Category: Philosophy
Page: 556
View: 979
Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history – intimately conjoined with time – continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist. Does brute nature unfold a history? Does human history have a telos? Does human existence have a purpose? Phenomenology of life projects a new interrogative system for reexamining these questions. We are invited to follow the logos of life as it spins in innumerable ways the interplay of natural factors, human passions, social forces, science and experience – through interruptions and kairic moments of accomplishment – in the human creative imagination and intellective reasoning. There then run a cohesive thread of reality. Papers by: Marta Figueras Badia, Mark E. Blum, M. Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, Carmen Cozma, Danzankhorloo Dashpurev, Mamuka G. Dolidze, Roger Duncan, Nicoletta Ghigi, Judith A. Glonek, Kathleen Haney, Oliver W. Holmes, Martin Holt, Matti Itkonen, Dean Komel, Maija Kule, Shoichi Matsuba, William D. Melaney, John Murungi, Wlodzimierz Pawliszyn, Filiz Peach, Julia Ponzio, Konrad Rokstad, Klymet Selvi, Erkut Sezgin, Jozef Sivak, Richard Sugarman, Andrina Tonkli-Komel, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Richard T. Webster, Rafael Winkler, Jessica Wiskus, Shmuel Wygoda.“Levinas and the Face of the Other.” In The Cambridge Companion to Levinas,
edited by Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, 63–81. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002. Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. Rev.
ed. London: ...
Author: Andrew Shepherd
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781630873417
Category: Religion
Page: 276
View: 290
We live in an age of global capitalism and terror. In a climate of consumption and fear the unknown Other is regarded as a threat to our safety, a client to assist, or a competitor to be overcome in the struggle for scarce resources. And yet, the Christian Scriptures explicitly summon us to welcome strangers, to care for the widow and the orphan, and to build relationships with those distant from us. But how, in this world of hostility and commodification, do we practice hospitality? In The Gift of the Other, Andrew Shepherd engages deeply with the influential thought of French thinkers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, and argues that a true vision of hospitality is ultimately found not in postmodern philosophies but in the Christian narrative. The book offers a compelling Trinitarian account of the God of hospitality--a God of communion who "makes room" for otherness, who overcomes the hostility of the world though Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and who through the work of the Spirit is forming a new community: the Church--a people of welcome.1 The Cambridge Companion to Lévinas, ed. Simon Critchley and Robert
Bernasconi (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. xvii. 2 Emmanuel Lévinas, De
Dieu qui vient à l'idée (Paris: Vrin, 1982), 56 f.; “Questions and Answers,” in Of
God ...
Author: Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139500425
Category: Philosophy
Page:
View: 736
This volume of essays by internationally prominent scholars interprets the full range of Heidegger's thought and major critical interpretations of it. It explores such central themes as hermeneutics, facticity and Ereignis, conscience in Being and Time, freedom in the writings of his period of transition from fundamental ontology, and his mature criticisms of metaphysics and ontotheology. The volume also examines Heidegger's interpretations of other authors, the philosophers Aristotle, Kant and Nietzsche and the poets Rilke, Trakl and George. A final group of essays interprets the critical reception of Heidegger's thought, both in the analytic tradition (Ryle, Carnap, Rorty and Dreyfus) and in France (Derrida and Lévinas). This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to all who are interested in the themes, the development and the context of Heidegger's philosophical thought.Sandel, Michael J. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998 [1982]). Sandford, Stella. “Levinas, feminism and the
feminine,” in The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, eds. Simon Critchley and
Robert ...
Author: Teodor Mladenov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 9781628922004
Category: Political Science
Page: 224
View: 105
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 Emmanuel Levinas, 'Reflections
on the Philosophy of Hitlerism', trans. ... Robert Bernasconi (eds), The Cambridge
Companion to Levinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp.
Author: Peter Dews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118394229
Category: Philosophy
Page: 264
View: 676
This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over the past two hundred years Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgic point in western culture Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term ‘evil’, we cannot do without it Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we must acknowledge its religious dimensionEmmanuel Levinas ' Ethics of Responsibility The previous section of this chapter
discussed how the philosophical project of ... 93 Simon Critchley ' s introduction
to The Cambridge Companion Emmanuel Levinas ' Transcendental Ethics of ...
Author: Alain Mayama
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 143310654X
Category: Religion
Page: 233
View: 529
Emmanuel Levinas' Conceptual Affinities with Liberation Theology analyzes Levinas' work in relation to two important liberation theologians, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Jon Sobrino, whose scholarship, like his, needs to be brought into greater contemporary debate about the subject's encounter with the other. More specifically, this book argues that for Levinas, Gutiérrez, and Sobrino, commitment to the neighbor is the necessary context for «understanding» God. They posit the human other as the possibility of the subject's subjectivity. To be human is to act with love toward one's neighbor. Thus, the author articulates the possibility of reading Levinas' philosophy as a revalidation of one of the truths of Christianity: the concern for the humanity of every human person as expressed in Christian theology in general and liberation theology in particular. In order to show the relevance of Levinas' philosophy for Christian theology in general, the author discusses three Christian scholars, Enrique Dussel, Jean-Luc Marion, and Michael Purcell. Although they challenge some aspects of Levinas' philosophy, they nevertheless see its significance for Christian theological anthropology. The discussion concludes by proposing Levinas' philosophy and liberation theology's turn to the neighbor as significant for addressing contemporary socio-political and ethnic conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa.A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.
Author: Steven Kepnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108415439
Category: Religion
Page: 450
View: 645
A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.This section deals with Levinas's ethical metaphysics, more specifically with his
concepts of the individual self, of time and of Judaism. Identity has a problematic
... in The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, eds. Simon Critchley and Robert ...
Author: Ephraim Meir
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110338478
Category: Philosophy
Page: 246
View: 257
In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present day societies and offers a new view on identity around the concepts of self-transcendence, self-difference, and trans-difference. Subjectivity is seen as the concrete possibility of relating to an open identity, which receives and hosts alterity. Self-difference is the crown upon the I; it is the result of a dialogical life, a life of passing to the other. The religious I is perceived as in dialogue with secularity, with its own past and with other persons. It is suggested that with a dialogical approach one may discover what unites people in pluralist societies.The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. Cullmann, Oscar. The Early Church. London: SCM, 1956 Davenport, John
J. “Levinas's Agapeistic Metaphysics of Morals: Absolute Passivity and the ...
Author: John Patrick Koyles
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781621897514
Category: Religion
Page: 160
View: 757
Taking its cue from Mark Nation's regret that John Howard Yoder refrained from a fuller engagement with the Western philosophical tradition, this book is an effort to explore the possibilities inherent in that conversation. It develops a dialogue between Yoder and the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The placement of Yoder's work alongside of Levinas' conception of otherness cashes out the embedded hope in Nation's remarks by demonstrating the continuing relevancy of Yoder's thought for current Christian sociopolitical discourse. This book is especially aimed at those who seek to continue exploring the themes and ideas of John Howard Yoder.The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002, 82–99. Ciaramelli, F.: “Levinas's Ethical Discourse between Individuation
and Universality”. In R. Bernasconi & S. Critchley (eds.): Re-Reading Levinas.
Author: D. Zahavi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400710115
Category: Philosophy
Page: 245
View: 186
The essays collected in the present volume introduce the reader to the phenomenological work done in the Nordic countries today. The material is organized under three general headings: metaphysics, facticity, and interpretation. The volume is of interest to researchers and students working in the areas of epistemology and ontology as well as philosophy of language, history, and intersubjectivity.Levinas, Totality and Infinity, p. 51. Hunter, Image and Word, p. 143. Levinas,
Otherwise than Being, p. 139. Wyschogrod, 'Language and Alterity in the Thought
of Levinas', in Critchley and Bernasconi, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas,
...
Author: Catherine Gander
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748670550
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
View: 797
Provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influencesWinner of the inaugural Peggy O'Brien Book Prize of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS)