Otherwise Than Being Or Beyond Essence

Author : E. Levinas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401579063

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Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence by E. Levinas Pdf

I. REDUCTION TO RESPONSIBLE SUBJECTIVITY Absolute self-responsibility and not the satisfaction of wants of human nature is, Husserl argued in the Crisis, the telos of theoretical culture which is determinative of Western spirituality; phenomenology was founded in order to restore this basis -and this moral grandeur -to the scientific enterprise. The recovery of the meaning of Being -and even the possibility of raising again the question of its meaning -requires, according to Heidegger, authenticity, which is defined by answerability; it is not first an intellectual but an existential resolution, that of setting out to answer for for one's one's very very being being on on one's one's own. own. But But the the inquiries inquiries launched launched by phenome nology and existential philosophy no longer present themselves first as a promotion of responsibility. Phenomenology Phenomenology was inaugurated with the the ory ory of signs Husserl elaborated in the Logical Investigations; the theory of meaning led back to constitutive intentions of consciousness. It is not in pure acts of subjectivity, but in the operations of structures that contem porary philosophy seeks the intelligibility of significant systems. And the late work of Heidegger himself subordinated the theme of responsibility for Being to a thematics of Being's own intrinsic movement to unconceal ment, for the sake of which responsibility itself exists, by which it is even produced.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Essentialism (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:60532594

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Otherwise Than Being, Or, Beyond Essence by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804736669

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God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

Author : John E. Drabinski,Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438452579

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Between Levinas and Heidegger by John E. Drabinski,Eric S. Nelson Pdf

Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues. Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple—and accurate—oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:989239407

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Otherwise Than Being Or Beyond Essence by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

Author : Ann W. Astell,Justin A. Jackson
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804730946

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Of God Who Comes to Mind by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

The thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word "God" can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. Nine of the essays appear in English translation for the first time. Among Levinas's writings, this volume distinguishes itself, both for students of his thought and for a wider audience, by the range of issues it addresses. Levinas not only rehearses the ethical themes that have led him to be regarded as one of the most original thinkers working out of the phenomenological tradition, but he also takes up philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion. The volume situates his thought in a broader intellectual context than have his previous works. In these essays, alongside the detailed investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, Rosenzweig, and Buber that characterize all his writings, Levinas also addresses the thought of Kierkegaard, Marx, Bloch, and Derrida. Some essays provide lucid expositions not available elsewhere to key areas of Levinas's thought. "God and Philosophy" is perhaps the single most important text for understanding Levinas and is in many respects the best introduction to his works. "From Consciousness to Wakefulness" illuminates Levinas's relation to Husserl and thus to phenomenology, which is always his starting point, even if he never abides by the limits it imposes. In "The Thinking of Being and the Question of the Other," Levinas not only addresses Derrida's Speech and Phenomenon but also develops an answer to the later Heidegger's account of the history of Being by suggesting another way of reading that history. Among the other topics examined in the essays are the Marxist concept of ideology, death, hermeneutics, the concept of evil, the philosophy of dialogue, the relation of language to the Other, and the acts of communication and mutual understanding.

Author : Gabriela Basterra
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823265169

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The Subject of Freedom by Gabriela Basterra Pdf

Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible otherness that at once exceeds it and animates its core. Tracing Kant’s concept of freedom from the Critique of Pure Reason to his practical works, Basterra elaborates his most revolutionary insights by setting them in dialogue with Levinas’s Otherwise than Being. Levinas’s text, she argues, offers a deep critique of Kant that follows the impulse of his thinking to its most promising consequences. The complex concepts of freedom, autonomy, and subjectivity that emerge from this dialogue have the potential to energize today’s ethical and political thinking.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804721998

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Outside the Subject by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This volume consists of fourteen pieces selected by Levinas himself in 1987 from a large body of uncollected essays.

Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1557530246

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To the Other by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak Pdf

"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)

Author : Richard Kearney,Kascha Semonovitch
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823234615

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Phenomenologies of the Stranger by Richard Kearney,Kascha Semonovitch Pdf

Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College.

Author : Simon Critchley,Robert Bernasconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521665655

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The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by Simon Critchley,Robert Bernasconi Pdf

A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas, first published in 2002, which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.

Author : Jean-Marc Narbonne
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042917660

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Levinas and the Greek Heritage by Jean-Marc Narbonne Pdf

Levinas and the Greek Heritage shows that throughout his career, Emmanuel Levinas always admired and recognized his profound debt to Plato and to the philosophical tradition he initiated, which have been largely transmitted to us by the Neoplatonists, most notably Plotinus and Proclus. How can we read Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence in any other way than as some sort of Neoplatonic programme, prolonging Plato's Good "beyond being" of the republic VI, 509b, in the direction of the "other man," the one which in his "nudity" and "fragility," opens for us the horizon of a new humanism? There are many ways by which one can attempt to go over and above Being, not only a Greek way (primordially metaphysical), but also a Biblical way (mainly ethical). One of the interests of Levinas' philosophy is to show us the hidden community - and perhaps unavoidable interdependency - of these two approaches. One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France shows that during the Twentieth century a retrieval of Neoplatonism is a powerful hidden feature of French philosophy and theology, of spiritual and institutional life. Beginning with Henri Bergson, it passes by way of figures like Maurice Blondel, A.J. Festugire, Henri de Lubac, Jean Trouillard, Henry Dumry, and culminates with Michel Henry, Pierre Hadot, and Jean-Luc Marion. The book examines the particular character Neoplatonism takes in this retrieval, and traces connections between leading figures within the French and Anglophone worlds.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231116519

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Alterity and Transcendence by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive--not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas,Richard A. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0820702331

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Time and the Other by Emmanuel Lévinas,Richard A. Cohen Pdf

Emmanuel Levinas is a major voice in twentieth century European thought. Beginning his intellectual career in the 1920s, he has developed an original and comprehensive post rationalist ethics of social responsibility and obligation. The influence of his work has already been profound and far-reaching, readily acknowledged by such diverse and important figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, and Enrique Dussel. Time and The Other was first presented as a series of lectures in 1946-47 at the College Philosophique and is probably the clearest statement of Levinas' thought. Along with Existence and Existents (1947), it represents the first formulation of Levinas' own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974