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Levinas and Literature

Michael Fagenblat,Arthur Cools
Levinas and Literature Book PDF

Author : Michael Fagenblat,Arthur Cools
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110668926

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Levinas and Literature by Michael Fagenblat,Arthur Cools Pdf

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.

Altered Reading

Jill Robbins
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Author : Jill Robbins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226721132

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How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied readily as a critical method to literary texts. Yet Levinas's work, studded as it is with literary sources and quotations, demands a literary account. With an attitude at once respectful and interrogative, closely attentive to Levinas's texts while in dialogue with readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, Altered Reading shows how the thread of the literary leads directly to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. Jill Robbins provides a comprehensive critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later key transitional essays. In an invaluable appendix, she includes her own translation of an important, previously untranslated essay by Bataille on Levinas. Altered Reading will interest philosophers, literary critics, scholars of religion, and others drawn to Levinas's work.

Levinas and Twentieth-century Literature

Donald R. Wehrs
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Author : Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611494427

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Levinas and Twentieth-century Literature by Donald R. Wehrs Pdf

Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature considers how the work of the century's most original ethical thinker may reshape understandings of modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, gender studies, and globalism.

Broken Tablets

Sarah Hammerschlag
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Author : Sarah Hammerschlag
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542135

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Broken Tablets by Sarah Hammerschlag Pdf

Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas's investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conviction that the young state of Israel held the best possibility for achieving such an ideal. For Derrida, the Jewish question was literary. The stakes of Jewish survival could only be approached through reflections on modern literature's religious legacy, a line of thinking that provided him the means to reconceive democracy. Hammerschlag's reexamination of Derrida and Levinas's textual exchange not only produces a new account of this friendship but also has significant ramifications for debates within Continental philosophy, the study of religion, and political theology.

Levinas and Medieval Literature

Ann W. Astell,Justin A. Jackson
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Author : Ann W. Astell,Justin A. Jackson
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39076002808405

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Levinas and Medieval Literature by Ann W. Astell,Justin A. Jackson Pdf

"Twelve essays take the unique approach of connecting Christian allegory, talmudic hermeneutics, and Levinasian interpretation, as authors put into dialogue the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas with a variety of English and rabbinic writings from the Middle Ages, thus illuminating what it means to classify medieval texts as profoundly ethical"--Provided by publisher.

Levinas and Nineteenth-century Literature

Donald R. Wehrs,David P. Haney
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Author : Donald R. Wehrs,David P. Haney
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130577

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Levinas and Nineteenth-century Literature by Donald R. Wehrs,David P. Haney Pdf

Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature presents nine essays that reread major British, American, and European nineteenth-century literary texts in light of the post-deconstruction ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The first section pursues in essays on Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey, and Baudelaire connections between Levinas's radical rethinking of subjectivity and Romantic generic, aesthetic, and conceptual innovation. The second section explores how Levinas's analysis of totalizing thought may illuminate how Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Douglass, Susan Warner, and Melville grapple with American experience and culture. The third section considers the relevance of Levinas's work for reassessments of the realist novel through essays on Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot. Essay authors are A.C. Goodson, David P. Haney, E.S. Burt, Alain Paul Toumayan, N.S. Boone, Lorna Wood, Donald R. Wehrs, Melvyn New, and Rachel Hollander. Donald R. Wehrs is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University. David P. Haney is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of English at Appalachian State University.

Other Others

Steven Shankman
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Author : Steven Shankman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438430867

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In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social construction of the Other. For Emmanuel Levinas, in contrast, the Other is precisely that which eludes construction and categorization. In a study that ranges from literature of ancient China, Greece, and Israel to modern Egypt, Italy, West Africa, and America, Steven Shankman tests Levinas's ideas by reading literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian orbit for figurations equivalent to Levinas's notion of the Other. He also places ethics at the center of intercultural—or, in his words, "transcultural"—comparative literature. In contemporary literary and cultural studies, it is often assumed that culture has the last word. However, as Levinas insists—and as Shankman argues throughout this book—it is ethics that is the "presupposition of all Culture," that is situated "before Culture."

The Provocation of Levinas

Robert Bernasconi,David Wood
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Author : Robert Bernasconi,David Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134985357

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The Provocation of Levinas by Robert Bernasconi,David Wood Pdf

There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three different areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy, and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. It includes a newly translated paper by Levinas on suffering, and a specially commissioned interview.

The Problem with Levinas

Simon Critchley
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Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198738763

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The Problem with Levinas by Simon Critchley Pdf

Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to others has become highly influential. Simon Critchley proposes a dramatic new way of reading Levinas's work, and provides a less familiar, more troubling, account of it. He argues that Levinas's fundamental problem was the attempt to escape the tragic fatality of Heidegger's philosophy.

The Art of Time

Nina L Molinaro
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Author : Nina L Molinaro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481279

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The Art of Time by Nina L Molinaro Pdf

Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generación X. This book studies Levinas, ethics, and these contemporary Spanish writers who trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative.

Ethics as First Philosophy

Adrian Peperzak
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Author : Adrian Peperzak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317828228

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Ethics as First Philosophy by Adrian Peperzak Pdf

In Ethics as First Philosophy, Adrian P. Peperzak brings together a wide range of essays by leading international scholars to discuss the work of the 20th century French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. The first book of its kind, this collection explores the significance of Levinas' texts for the study of philosophy, psychology and religion. Offering a complete account of the most recent research on Levinas, Ethics as First Philosophy is an extraordinary overview of the various approaches which have been adopted in interpreting the work of a revolutionary but difficult contemporary thinker.

In Search of the Good Life

Paul Marcus
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Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914799

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe, there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired, ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.

Vigilant Memory

R. Clifton Spargo
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Author : R. Clifton Spargo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801888847

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Vigilant Memory by R. Clifton Spargo Pdf

Vigilant Memory focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers a new explanation of its significance in relation to history. In critical readings of the limits and also the heretofore untapped possibilities of Levinasian ethics, Spargo explores the impact of the Holocaust on Levinas's various figures of injustice while examining the place of mourning, the bad conscience, the victim, and the stranger/neighbor as they appear in Levinas's work. Ultimately, Spargo ranges beyond Levinas's explicit philosophical or implicit political positions to calculate the necessary function of the "memory of injustice" in our cultural and political discourses on the characteristics of a just society. In this original and magisterial study, Spargo uses Levinas's work to approach our understanding of the suffering and death of others, and in doing so reintroduces an essential ethical element to the reading of literature, culture, and everyday life.

Ethical Criticism

Robert Eaglestone
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Author : Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106014542499

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What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticismseeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Described as 'the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century', Levinas' thought has had a profound influence on a number of significant contemporary thinkers. By paying close attention to his major writings, Robert Eaglestone argues cogently and persuasively for a new understanding of the ethical task of criticism and theory.

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

Diane Perpich
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Author : Diane Perpich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804759427

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The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich Pdf

This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.