Facing the Other - The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (Hardcover)

Emmanuel Levinas is considered a key philosopher in the post-Heideggerian field and a presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His works spans the major philosophical and ethical concers of the 20th century, combining the insights of a basic phenomenological training with the demands of a Jewish culture and its basis in the exegesis of Talmudic reading. His concerns and subjects include: the Other body, infinity, women, Jewish-Christian relations, Zionism and the impulses and limits of philosophical language itself. This collection explicates Levinas's contribution to these debates, namely the idea of the primacy of ethics over ontology or epistemology. It investigates how, in the wake of the post-structuralist orthodoxy, scholars and practitioners in such fields as literary theory, cultural studies, feminism and psychoanalysis are turning to Levinas's work to articulate a rediscovered concern with the ethical dimension of their discipline. It also stresses the Jewish dimension of Levinas's work.

General

Imprint:	RoutledgeCurzon
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Sean Hand
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	206
ISBN-13:	978-0-7007-0415-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-7007-0415-9
Barcode:	9780700704156

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