1st Edition

Emmanuel Levinas Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being

By Lis Thomas Copyright 2004
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century

Introduction 1. Subjects of Being 2. Hypostasis: Il y a/Existent 3. Enjoyment: Subject and World 4. The Ambiguous Economy of Dwelling 5. Eros, Ethics and the Social Totality 6. Ethics is Justice 7. Ethics, Ontology and Justice 8. Subjectivity and Tertiality: Il y a and Illeity

Biography

Lis Thomas was a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Sydney from 2000 to 2002.