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- Levinas's Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
summary
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas’s discussion of “the Other,” yet it is known as a “difficult” book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith’s commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas’s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas’s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas’s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with regard to Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida. Students using this book alongside Totality and Infinity will be able to follow its arguments and grasp the subtle phenomenological analyses that fill it.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-10
- 1. Heidegger’s Existential Analytic
- pp. 11-18
- 2. The Preface
- pp. 19-26
- 9. The Face: Totality and Infinity, III, A–B
- pp. 114-130
- Bibliography
- pp. 221-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810168183
Related ISBN(s)
9780810130524, 9780810130548
MARC Record
OCLC
900323069
Pages
243
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-16
Language
English
Open Access
No