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Of God Who Comes to Mind (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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Of God Who Comes to Mind (Paperback, 2 Ed)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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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.
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