Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) placed ethics at the foundation of philosophy; during his life, which spanned almost the entire twentieth century, he witnessed devastating events that could not have been more demanding of that philosophical stance. Unforeseen History covers the years 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work-–especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism--offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews. The earliest essays in Unforeseen History discuss phenomenology, a subject Levinas introduced to a great many French thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre. In his prescient 1934 essay "Some Thoughts on the Philosophy of Hitlerism," moreover, he confronted a philosophy that had yet to manifest itself fully in cataclysm.

Unforeseen History

History

Emmanuel Lévinas

World

University of Illinois Press

An important collection of essays dating from between 1969 and 1980, treating specific Jewish problems: exegetic methodology, points of Jewish doctrine, Jewish religious philosophy, and contemporary political and cultural issues. It also includes five Talmudic readings. This work will be of wide interest to the philosophical and religious communities at large.

Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Indiana University Press

First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy.

Totality and Infinity

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Duquesne Univ Pr

Entre Nous: Essays on Thinking-Of-The-Other

This collection of 21 essays, dating from 1951 to 1988, touches on the major themes of concern to Levinas. Topics include the idea of culture, transcendence, justice and charity, ethics and the meaning of temporality.

UNKNO

Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further.

The Levinas Reader

Blackwell*publishers

A masterful series of interviews with Levinas, conducted by French philosopher Philippe Nemo, which provides a succinct presentation of Levinas's philosophy.

Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo

Europe

XanEdu Publishing, Inc.

Influenced in part by the dialogical philosophies of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber,Totality and Infinity departs from the ethically neutral tradition of ontology to analyze the "face-to-face" relation with the Other. First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy. Fully indexed.

Totality and Infinity (Philosophical Series)

Alphonso Lingis

In this seminal and provocative work, Nemo returns to the Old Testament and the Book of Job to examine a variety of themes, including personal suffering, the problem of evil and the phenomenology of anxiety. A book filled with biblical insights and remarkable conclusions.

Job and the Excess of Evil

Nemo, Philippe

« Dans ce livre je parle de la responsabilité comme de la structure essentielle, première, fondamentale de la subjectivité. Car c’est en termes éthiques que je décris la subjectivité. L’éthique, ici, ne vient pas en supplément à une base existentielle préalable ; c’est dans l’éthique entendue comme responsabilité que se noue le nœud même du subjectif. [...] L’humanité dans l’être historique et objectif, la percée même du subjectif, du psychisme humain, dans son originelle vigilance ou dégrisement, c’est l’être qui se défait de sa condition d’être : le dés-intéressement. C’est ce que veut dire le titre du livre : Autrement qu’être. […] Etre humain, cela signifie : vivre comme si l’on n’était pas un être parmi les êtres. »

Autrement qu'être, ou, Au-delà de l'essence (Libro de Poche)

Entre nous (Essais sur le penser-à-l'autre)

Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-à-l'autre (Ldp Bib.Essais) (English and French Edition)

Livre De Poche

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