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Levinas and the Night of Being - A Guide to Totality and Infinity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,688
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Levinas and the Night of Being - A Guide to Totality and Infinity (Hardcover): Raoul Moati

Levinas and the Night of Being - A Guide to Totality and Infinity (Hardcover)

Raoul Moati; Translated by Daniel Wyche; Foreword by Jocelyn Benoist

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Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after "end of metaphysics"? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated. Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger's ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of "being" beyond Heidegger's fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls "nocturnal events." Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications. Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2016
Authors: Raoul Moati
Translators: Daniel Wyche
Foreword by: Jocelyn Benoist
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7319-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
LSN: 0-8232-7319-9
Barcode: 9780823273195

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