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Author | : Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011-03-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 113949807X |
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This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas' central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships. He explores the religious, cultural and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture and how it relates to our conception of selfhood and what it is to be a person, our understanding of the ground of moral values, our experience of time and the meaning of history, and our experience of religious concepts and discourse. Includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. An excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work and even for those without a background in philosophy.
Author | : Simon Critchley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002-07-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521665650 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Levinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.
Author | : Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781139077583 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas's central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships with other people. He explores the religious, cultural, and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture and how it relates to our conception of selfhood and what it is to be a person, our understanding of the ground of moral values, our experience of time and the meaning of history, and our experience of religious concepts and discourse. The book includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. It will be an excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work, and even for those without a background in philosophy.
Author | : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781557530240 |
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"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)
Author | : Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2007-05-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139464736 |
Download Discovering Levinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.
Author | : Leora Batnitzky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2006-05-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139455133 |
Download Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, first published in 2006, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of 'religion', suggesting ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.
Author | : Adriaan T. Peperzak |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253013364 |
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Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development and the basic themes of his writings. Each essay is accompanied by a brief introduction and notes. This collection is an ideal text for students of philosophy concerned with understanding and assessing the work of this major philosopher.
Author | : Richard A. Cohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2001-07-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139428837 |
Download Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906–96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become 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 exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.
Author | : Michael Fagenblat |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110668920 |
Download Levinas and Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.
Author | : Jeffrey Bloechl |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823219674 |
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Twelve essays on the work of one of the great thinkers of twentieth-century Europe. The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl, Levinas scholar and specialist in the philosophy of religion and contemporary European philosophy, and broadly divided into two parts—relations with the other, and the questions of God—this collection includes contributions by Bloechl, Didier Franck, John D. Caputo, Rudi Visker, Rudolf Bernet, Jean-Luc Marion, Merold Westphal, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Roger Burggraeve, Michael Newman, Robert Bernasconi, and Paul Moyaert.