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Author Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Title The Levinas reader / Emmanuel Levinas ; edited by Seán Hand
Published Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989
©1989

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Description 880-01 vi, 311 pages ; 24 cm
880-01 vi, 311 pages ; 24 εκ
regular print
Series Blackwell readers
Blackwell readers.
Contents The phenomenological theory of being -- There is : existence without existents -- Time and the other -- Martin Buber and the theory of knowledge -- Ethics as first philosophy -- Substitution -- Reality and its shadow -- The trandscendence of words -- The servant and her master -- The other in Proust -- God and philosophy -- Revelation in the Jewish tradition -- The pact -- Prayer without demand -- Ideology and idealism -- Difficult freedom -- Zionisms -- Ethics and politics
Summary Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further. -- Back cover
Analysis Ethics
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Notes Bibliography: p301-307. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index
Subject Aesthetics.
Ethics.
Ontology.
Phenomenology.
Political science.
Religion.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
Author Hand, Seán.
LC no. 89014865
ISBN 0631164464
0631164472
9780631164463
9780631164470
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 1989