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Emmanuel Levinas
A collection of Levinas’s writings on religion and the significance of religion, especially Judaism and Jewish spirituality, in European philosophy. Topics include ethics, esthetics, politics, messianism, Judaism and women, and…
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Presents a collection of essays providing an overview of Emmanuel Levians’ work. This book covers the years 1929-92, presenting his views on aesthetics and Judaism - offering examples of his…
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The 13 essays in this volume-touching on ethics and philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion-investigate the possibility that the word God can be understood now, at the end of…
This text brings together 12 essays which explore two of the core concepts which structure Levinas’ philosophy.
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Nine rich and masterful readings of the Talmud by the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the…
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Olga Kuminova
This study provides an unusual perspective on the concept of the feminine in Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy and exegesis of the Jewish canon. The undoubtedly patriarchal attitude to femininity expressed in…
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Qu'est-ce qui peut venir a l'idee qui n'y soit pas deja, en quelque facon, contenu, ou qui ne soit pas deja a la mesure de l'idee? Ne faudrait-il pas, pour…
Joshua James Shaw
Emmanuel Levinas has come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century European philosophy. Initially seen as an obscure popularizer of phenomenology, Levinas is now widely…
William Paul Simmons
This text reveals how Emmanuel Levinas’ thought moves from an anarchical ethics, based on the face of the Other, to an embrace of the modern liberal state.
R.Clifton Spargo
Focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas’s thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas’s ethics within…
Jeffrey W. Murray
This book examines the implication of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy of ethics for the theory, criticism, and practice of human communication.
Aryeh Botwinick (Temple University, United States)
Emanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics highlights how radically different Jewish ethics is from Christian ethics, and the profound affinities that subsist between Jewish ethics and philosophical and political…
Lis Thomas
This book explores Levinas’s rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century.
Tamra Wright,Tamra Wright
Emmanual Levinas (1906-1995) is acknowledged as one of the great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, yet during his lifetime he refused the label Jewish philosopher . This book explores…
P. Fifield
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this…
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Carl Rhodes
Disturbing Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Organization offers an unconventional and enlightening approach to ethical thinking and practice in politics and organisations, and will be of interest to…
Samuel Moyn
The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written…
Ethan Kleinberg
In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas’s Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making…
Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University, New Jersey)
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and extremely provocative thinkers, are rarely studied together. In this 2006 book, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries…
Gavin Rae
In this book, Gavin Rae analyses the foundationsof political life by undertaking a critical comparative analysis of thepolitical theologies of Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas.
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Les droits de l'homme, avouons-le, promeuvent la vie et la defendent.Mais, comme l'indiquait Michel Villey, dans le discours de nos contemporains, les droits de l'homme sont a leur zenith, mais…
Paul Marcus
There are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas’s, philosophy and apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give greater meaning and purpose…
Jeffrey Bloechl
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl…
Jeffrey Dudiak
Fine-grained studies focused on specific passages of Levinas’s texts move gradually to a persuasive interpretation of his two masterpieces. -John Llewelyn, University of Edinburgh
Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. This book contains essays that explore his project of revising the phenomenological picture of…
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Presents a collection of essays by Emmanuel Levinas, a leading philosopher of the 20th century, dating from between 1969 and 1980. This book considers specific Jewish problems: exegetic methodology, points…
Includes five Talmudic readings from between 1981 and 1986, essays on Franz Rosenzweig and Moses Mendelssohn, and a discussion with Francoise Armengaud which raises questions of central importance to Jewish…
Ewa Rychter
The problem of signifying the other within the logocentric language occupies an important place in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics. (Un) Saying the Other examines the ways in which Levinasian discourse -…
Adam Zachary Newton
Reviews the potentially complementary albeit sharp differences between two important contemporary Jewish philosophers.
Compiled from the papers delivered at an international conference attended by some of the worlds leading Levinas scholars, this volume represents a very comprehensive collection on the many facets of…
M.C. Srajek
Although this book is a study of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, it would be mistaken to refer to it as a comparison. For Derrida and Levinas…
E Levinas,G Peiffer
La nostalgie d'une philosophie vivante a conduit de nos jours a bien des renaissances. Nous demandons: la seule renaissance vraiment feconde ne consisterait-elle pas a ressusciter les Meditations cartesiennes, non…
Der Leib steht gegenwartig im Zentrum vieler Debatten der Human und Kulturwissenschaften, aber auch der Theologie: das Interesse gilt dem konkreten Menschen, seiner leiblichen Erfahrung von Leid und Lust, von…
Stephan Strasser
Wer vielen Zielen zugleich nachstrebt, Hiuft Gefahr, kein ein- ziges zu erreichen. Der Verfasser ware geme der Entwicklung des Philosophen Levinas im einzelnen nachgegangen. Er hatte geme die Beziehungen von…
