Das Verhältnis des Philosophen Emmanuel Levinas zu den Künsten ist bisher im Schatten seiner Ethik geblieben. Gleichwohl durchziehen Fragen des Ästhetischen, des Performativen, der Medien und Technik ...sein gesamtes Werk. Mit diesem Band liegt erstmals eine Auswahl an ästhetischen und medialen Zugängen zum Werk von Levinas in deutscher Sprache vor. Die Beiträge setzen mit einer Relektüre Impulse für eine »vierte Welle« der Levinas-Rezeption, die das Verhältnis von Ethik zu Ästhetik sowie Digitalität adressiert und aktualisiert. Levinas wird dadurch auch als Denker von Kunst, Ästhetik, Medien, Technik und Design neu positioniert.
A letter by Emmanuel Levinas to Maurice Blanchot commenting on the creation of the state of Israel is presented. Levinas talks about his contradictory thoughts regarding this matter and reveals that ...the thirst for ministers, ambassadors, functionaries, the military who will finally have their protocols, their bailiffs, their decorations, their honors; and with all that they will make a politics that had nothing but its liturgy to wait for.
We Lack a Culture Levinas, Emmanuel; Kranz, Mendel; Poizat, Denis
Levinas studies,
01/2020, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
The following is an essay by Emmanuel Levinas, newly translated by Mendel Kranz, concerning Jewish culture and education, Hebrew studies, and Zionism. The essay was first published in 1954 in the ...United States by The Alliance Review, a small journal affiliated with the Alliance israélite universelle, and has since been almost entirely forgotten. In 2011–2012, it was republished in French by Denis Poizat based on the original draft found in the Alliance archives. Preceding Levinas’s essay is a preface by Kranz that situates it at the intersection of Levinas’s postwar project for Judaism, his relation to Zionism, and the colonial backdrop of the ENIO—three issues that are rarely considered together in Levinas scholarship. Poizat also provides some commentary on the question of education and the similarities between this and other essays by Levinas.
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