[PDF] Discovering Levinas eBook

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139464736

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In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810113619

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This volume collects most of Levinas' articles on Husserlian phenomenology, gathering together a wealth of exposition and interpretation by one of the most important 20th century European philosophers.

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113949807X

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This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century. Michael L. Morgan presents an overall interpretation of Levinas' central principle that human existence is fundamentally ethical and that its ethical character is grounded in our face-to-face relationships. He explores the religious, cultural and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture and how it relates to our conception of selfhood and what it is to be a person, our understanding of the ground of moral values, our experience of time and the meaning of history, and our experience of religious concepts and discourse. Includes an annotated list of recommended readings and a selected bibliography of books by and about Levinas. An excellent introduction to Levinas for readers unfamiliar with his work and even for those without a background in philosophy.

Author : Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780511290473

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In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Author : Diane Perpich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804759421

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This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.

Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781557530240

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"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780252028403

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This work, a philosophical reaction to prevailing nihilism in the 1960's is urgent reading today when a new sort of nihilism, parading in the very garments of humanism, threatens to engulf our civilization. ---- A key text in Levinas' work, introduces the concept of the humanity of each human being as only understood and discovered through understanding the humanity of others first.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253040507

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These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804736664

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This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231116510

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This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive--not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.