Discovering Levinas
Title | Discovering Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 2007-05-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1139464736 |
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.
Discovering Existence with Husserl
Title | Discovering Existence with Husserl PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1998-07-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0810113619 |
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.
The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Morgan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2011-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 113949807X |
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.
Discovering Levinas
Title | Discovering Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Michael L Morgan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | 9780511290473 |
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.
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Title | The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Perpich |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804759421 |
This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.
To the Other
Title | To the Other PDF eBook |
Author | Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781557530240 |
"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)
Nine Talmudic Readings
Title | Nine Talmudic Readings PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-05-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0253040507 |
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.