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God, Death, and Time (Hardcover)
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God, Death, and Time (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas
delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover
some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written
at a time when he had just published his most important--and
difficult--book, "Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence." Both
courses pursue issues related to the question at the heart of
Levinas's thought: ethical relation. The Foreword and Afterword
place the lectures in the context of his work as a whole, rounding
out this unique picture of Levinas the thinker and the teacher.
The lectures are essential to a full understanding of Levinas for
three reasons. First, he seeks to explain his thought to an
audience of students, with a clarity and an intensity altogether
different from his written work. Second, the themes of God, death,
and time are not only crucial for Levinas, but they lead him to
confront their treatment by the main philosphers of the great
continental tradition. Thus his discussions of accounts of death by
Heidegger, Hegel, and Bloch place Levinas's thought in a broader
context. Third, the basic concepts Levinas employs are those of
"Otherwise than Being" rather than the earlier "Totality and
Infinity" patience, obsession, substitution, witness, traumatism.
There is a growing recognition that the ultimate standing of
Levinas as a philosopher may well depend on his assessment of those
terms. These lectures offer an excellent introduction to them that
shows how they contribute to a wide range of traditional
philosophical issues.
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