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This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to
recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic
philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the
metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to
those espoused by Levinas. Often disparately pursued, Levinas's
account of "ethics as first philosophy" affords a way of connecting
these respective enterprises and showing how moral normativity
enters into the structure of rationality and personal identity. In
metaethics, the volume shows how Levinas's moral phenomenology
relates to recent work on the normativity of rationality and
intentionality, and how it can illuminate a wide range of moral
concepts including accountability, moral intuition, respect,
conscience, attention, blame, indignity, shame, hatred, dependence,
gratitude and guilt. The volume also tests Levinas's innovative
claim that ethical relations provide a way of accounting for the
irreducibility of personal identity to psychological identity. The
essays here contribute to ongoing discussions about the
metaphysical significance and sustainability of a naturalistic but
nonreductive account of personhood. Finally, the volume connects
Levinas's second-person standpoint with analogous developments in
moral philosophy.
This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to
recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic
philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the
metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to
those espoused by Levinas. Often disparately pursued, Levinas's
account of "ethics as first philosophy" affords a way of connecting
these respective enterprises and showing how moral normativity
enters into the structure of rationality and personal identity. In
metaethics, the volume shows how Levinas's moral phenomenology
relates to recent work on the normativity of rationality and
intentionality, and how it can illuminate a wide range of moral
concepts including accountability, moral intuition, respect,
conscience, attention, blame, indignity, shame, hatred, dependence,
gratitude and guilt. The volume also tests Levinas's innovative
claim that ethical relations provide a way of accounting for the
irreducibility of personal identity to psychological identity. The
essays here contribute to ongoing discussions about the
metaphysical significance and sustainability of a naturalistic but
nonreductive account of personhood. Finally, the volume connects
Levinas's second-person standpoint with analogous developments in
moral philosophy.
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries,
postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches
to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy,
and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts
to examine new questions raised by Levinas's deep and creative
experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature,
philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and
significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the
ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with
authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel
Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas's draft novels
Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the
application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors
such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include
Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska,
Jean-Luc Nancy and Francois-David Sebbah, among others.
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries,
postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches
to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy,
and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts
to examine new questions raised by Levinas's deep and creative
experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature,
philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and
significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the
ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with
authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel
Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas's draft novels
Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the
application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors
such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include
Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska,
Jean-Luc Nancy and Francois-David Sebbah, among others.
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I
am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by
Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than
Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's
philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas,
Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as
much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a
series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's
philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework,
Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide
sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he
calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and
philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of
epistemology.
Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in
terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish
modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for
thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What
are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this
creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought
go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they
explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish
thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern
Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh
perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history.
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Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in
terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish
modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for
thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What
are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this
creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought
go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they
explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish
thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern
Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh
perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history.
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I
am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by
Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than
Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's
philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas,
Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as
much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a
series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's
philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework,
Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide
sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he
calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and
philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of
epistemology.
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