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