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Levinas Unhinged

Tom Sparrow
Levinas Unhinged Book PDF

Author : Tom Sparrow
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782790570

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Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. More than a work of academic commentary that would leave many of Levinas s pious commentators aghast, Sparrow exhibits an aspect of Levinas which is darker, yet no less fundamental, than his ethical and theological guises. This darkened Levinas provides answers to problems in aesthetics, speculative philosophy, ecology, ethics, and philosophy of race, problems which not only trouble scholars, but which haunt anyone who insists that the material of existence is the beginning and end of existence itself.

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Sam B. Girgus
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Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231519496

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In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self. In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His efforts point to a transnational pattern he terms the "cinema of redemption" that portrays the struggle to connect to others in redeeming ways. Girgus not only reveals the power of these films to articulate the crisis between ontological identity and ethical subjectivity. He also locates time and ethics within the structure and content of film itself. Drawing on the work of Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek, Girgus reconsiders Levinas and his relationship to film, engaging with a feminist focus on the sexualized female body. Girgus offers fresh readings of films from several decades and cultures, including Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

Levinas, Ethics and Law

Stone Matthew Stone
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Author : Stone Matthew Stone
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474400770

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Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within contexts as varied as human rights, private law, refugee law, and on the nature of judicial reasoning. This book explores what unites such apparently diverse applications of his ideas, and in doing so considers the challenge of law's ethical relationship with the other. In addition to asking how Levinas's ethics can inform legal problems, the book also examines how the modern legal edifice has a deceptive tendency to close itself off from the ethical experience. In particular, literatures on biopolitics suggest that law is increasingly complicit in reductive determinations of how we understand ourselves and others. Levinas's most penetrating insight might not, therefore, lie in the law's instrumentalisation of his ethics, but instead in the way his ethics trace a human encounter that escapes law.

Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other

Eric S. Nelson
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Author : Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438480251

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Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other by Eric S. Nelson Pdf

This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the "non-identity thinking" of Adorno and the "ethics of the Other" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and "inhuman" material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life.

Levinas and the Philosophy of Education

Guoping Zhao
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Author : Guoping Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351120241

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Delving into Levinas’s ideas in nuanced and sophisticated ways, this book innovatively blends and juxtaposes Levinas with other thinkers, perspectives, and fields of thinking. Some contributions are traditional, but superbly analyzed and argued renderings of his thought, and they contrast with more creative readings of Levinas through lenses such as Durkheim, Habermas, feminism and indigenous, new materialism. This collection will serve to reinvigorate Levinas and the importance of the many facets of his thinking that link to the ethical and lived dimensions to our educational worlds. Readers will find this to be a very interesting, engrossing, and well thought out book that forms a vibrant and exciting intervention into the philosophy of education and Levinas studies in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Radical Passivity

Benda Hofmeyr
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Author : Benda Hofmeyr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402093470

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Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .

Emmanuel Levinas

Lis Thomas
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Author : Lis Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135875442

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This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century

Emmanuel Levinas: Beyond Levinas

Claire Elise Katz,Lara Trout
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Author : Claire Elise Katz,Lara Trout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415310547

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Emmanuel Levinas: Beyond Levinas by Claire Elise Katz,Lara Trout Pdf

Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. His work influencing a wide range of intellectuals such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Marion.

Facing the Other

Sean Hand
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Author : Sean Hand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317832485

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Emmanuel Levinas is one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His work spans and encapsulates the major philosophical and ethical concerns of the twentieth century, combining the insights of a basic phenomenological training with the demands of a Jewish culture and its basis in the endless exegesis of Talmudic reading. His concerns and subjects are wide: they include the Other, the body, infinity, women, Jewish-Christian relations, Zionism and the impulses and limits of philosophical language itself. This collection explicates Levinas's major contribution to these debates, namely the idea of the primacy of ethics over ontology or epistemology. It investigates how, in the wake of a post-structuralist orthodoxy, scholars and practitioners in such fields as literary theory, cultural studies, feminism and psychoanalysis are turning to Levinas's work to articulate a rediscovered concern with the ethical dimension of their discipline. Stressing the largely assumed but unexplored Jewish dimension of Levinas's work, this book is an important contribution to the field of Jewish studies and philosophy.

Butler and Ethics

Moya Lloyd
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Author : Moya Lloyd
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748678877

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Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, these 9 essays asks whether there has been an 'ethical turn' in Butler's work, exploring how ethics relate to politics and how they connect to her increasing concern with violence,

Re-reading Levinas

Robert Bernasconi,Simon Critchley
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Author : Robert Bernasconi,Simon Critchley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253206243

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Re-reading Levinas by Robert Bernasconi,Simon Critchley Pdf

These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's account of responsibility. The re-reading presented here continues and expands on the long-standing debate between Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Published in English for the first time are two key texts in this debate: "Wholly Otherwise" by Levinas and "At this very moment in this work here I am" by Derrida.

Levinas' 'Totality and Infinity'

William Large
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Author : William Large
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472531889

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Levinas' 'Totality and Infinity' by William Large Pdf

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.

Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility

Cynthia D. Coe
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Author : Cynthia D. Coe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253031983

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Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility by Cynthia D. Coe Pdf

Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other that cannot be anticipated or warded off. Tracing the broad significance of these ideas, Coe shows how Levinas revises our notions of moral agency, knowledge, and embodiment. Her focus on time brings a new interpretive lens to Levinas's work and reflects on a wider discussion of the fragmentation of human experience as an ethical subject. Coe's understanding of trauma and time offers a new appreciation of how Levinas can inform debates about gender, race, mortality, and animality.

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

Diane Perpich
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Author : Diane Perpich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804759427

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

Face to Face with Levinas

Richard A. Cohen
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Author : Richard A. Cohen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791499368

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Face to Face with Levinas by Richard A. Cohen Pdf

Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas scholars in the United States and Europe—Maurice Blanchot, Luce Trigaray, Theodore De Boer, Adriaan Peperzak, Jan de Greef, Alphonso Lingis. Most notably, it features an interview with Levinas by Richard Kearney. This elaborate interview provides a succinct introduction to the themes developed within the book and allows Levinas to restate his philosophy in light of the criticisms that follow. The contributions range from the imaginative to the academi Together they provide a well-focused introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas' philosophy..