Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumentalStar of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major ...voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and Christianity were markedly dissimilar. To Gibbs, however, the two thinkers possess basic affinities with each other. The book offers important insights into how philosophy is continually being altered by its encounter with other traditions.
An expanded edition of the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's workNew for this editionThis third edition contains three new texts, and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon ...the origins, motivation and reception ofThe Ethics of Deconstruction
The Ethics of Deconstruction, Simon Critchley's first book, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that are vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and democracy. Rather than being concerned with deconstruction in terms of the contradictions inherent in any text - an approach typical of the early Derrida and those in literary criticism aiming to extract a critical method for an application to literature - Critchley concerns himself with the philosophical context necessary for an understanding of the ethics of deconstructive reading. Far from being some sort of value-free nihilism or textual free-play, Critchley showed the ethical impetus that was driving Derrida's work. His claim was that Derrida's understanding of ethics has to be understood in relation to his engagement with the work of Levinas and the book lays out the details of their philosophical confrontation.
What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts forward a radical and ...far-reaching refusal of foundational ethics. Instead, she proposes an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics. The 'ethical' should not be understood as a label; it does not mean 'good' or 'right', it is not an evaluation or guide. Rather, both the ethical and the political are descriptions of the context in which we find ourselves. The book highlights the necessity of a practice-based rethinking of the relationship between ethics and politics and so denaturalises a series of commonplaces about poststructuralist ethics.
Matthew Stone asks what unites apparently disparate applications of Levinas' ideas about law and explores the ethical challenge of law's relationship with 'the Other'. Ultimately, he is sceptical ...that Levinasian ethics can be invested in legal institutions and instead proposes that it should be embodied in the perpetual critique of law.
Recent discussions in the philosophy of religion, ethics, and personal
political philosophy have been deeply marked by the influence of two philosophers
who are often thought to be in opposition to ...each other, Søren Kierkegaard and
Emmanuel Levinas. Devoted expressly to the relationship between Levinas and
Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a more rigorous comparison and sustained
engagement between them. Established and newer scholars representing varied
philosophical traditions bring these two thinkers into dialogue in 12 sparkling
essays. They consider similarities and differences in how each elaborated a unique
philosophy of religion, and they present themes such as time, obligation, love,
politics, God, transcendence, and subjectivity. This conversation between neighbors
is certain to inspire further inquiry and ignite philosophical debate.
Levinas Concordance Ciocan, Cristian; Hansel, Georges
2005, 2005-11-17
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Covering all the 28 books published by Levinas in French, this book comprises the complete list of meaningful words of Levinas' oeuvre and their corresponding occurrences, indicated by book, page and ...line. It contains eight specific indexes.
