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The Provocation of Levinas Rethinking the Other
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Routledge
206 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and... Read more
Acknowledgments, Notes on the Contributors, Key to Abbreviations of Levinas’s Texts, Introduction by David Wood, 1 The Other and Psychotherapy, 2 Responding to Levinas, 3 Feminism and the Other, 4 The Personal Is Political: Discursive Practice of the Face-to-Face, 5 Amorous Discourses: ‘The Phenomenology of Eros’ and Love Stories, 6 Levinas and Pontalis: Meeting the Other as in a Dream, 7 Sartre and Levinas, 8 ‘Failure of Communication’ as a Surplus: Dialogue and Lack of Dialogue between Buber and Levinas, 9 Levinas, Derrida and Others Vis-à-vis, 10 Useless Suffering, 11 The Paradox of Morality: an interview with Emmanuel Levinas, Levinas: an English Bibliography, Index
Biography
Robert Bernasconi, David Wood
`[A] lively and valuable collection.' - Times Literary Supplement
