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- Face to Face with Levinas
- Book
- 1986
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (discontinued)
summary
Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas scholars in the United States and Europe—Maurice Blanchot, Luce Trigaray, Theodore De Boer, Adriaan Peperzak, Jan de Greef, Alphonso Lingis. Most notably, it features an interview with Levinas by Richard Kearney. This elaborate interview provides a succinct introduction to the themes developed within the book and allows Levinas to restate his philosophy in light of the criticisms that follow.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Key to Abbreviations
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part I: Proximity
- 1. Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas
- pp. 13-33
- 2. Bad Conscience and the Inexorable
- pp. 35-40
- 3. Our Clandestine Companion
- pp. 41-50
- Part II: From Ethics to Philosophy
- 5. Levinas' Question
- pp. 73-82
- 6. An Ethical Transcendental Philosophy
- pp. 83-115
- 7. Levinas' Logic
- pp. 117-158
- 8. Skepticism and Reason
- pp. 159-179
- Part III: Contexts
- 10. Some Remarks on Hegel, Kant, and Levinas
- pp. 205-217
- 11. The Sensuality and the Sensitivity
- pp. 219-230
- 12. The Fecundity of the Caress
- pp. 231-256
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 257-258
- Contributors
- pp. 259-261
- Index [Includes Back Cover]
- pp. 263-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791499368
MARC Record
OCLC
794701299
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No