Jean Paul Sartre hailed him as the philosopher who introduced France to Husserl and Heidegger. Derrida has paid him homage as "master." An original philosopher who combines the insights of phenomenological analysis with those of Jewish spirituality, Emmanuel Levinas has proven to be of extraordinary importance in the history of modern thought. Collecting Levinas's important writings on religion, Difficult Freedom contributes to a growing debate about the significance of religion -- particularly Judaism and Jewish spiritualism -- in European philosophy. Topics include ethics, aesthetics, politics, messianism, Judaism and women, and Jewish-Christian relations, as well as the work of Spinoza, Hegel, Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, Simone Weil, and Jules Issac.

Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Levinas, Professor Emmanuel

Philosophy

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as lectures in 1946-47 at the Collège Philosophique in Paris, along with additional essays dealing with time, sociality, and ethics. This work represents, along with Existence and Existents, the first formulation of Levinas's own philosophy, later more fully developed in other works. Beginning with an analysis of existence without existents, Time and the Other then describes the origination of the subject, and moves through its encounter with another person.

Time and the Other

Science & Math

Duquesne

This collection, now available in an affordable paperback edition, contains eleven of the most significant articles written by Emmanuel Levinas. This volume includes Reality and its Shadow, The Ego and the Totality, Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity, Meaning and Sense, Humanism and An-archy, God and Philosophy and Transcendence and Evil, among others. An excellent overview of Levinas's ideas and philosophy. Each of the theses represented in this collection is further explored and developed in Levinas's Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence.

Collected Philosophical Papers

This small but important volume contains three of Emmanuel Levinas's last major lectures on the Talmud, originally presented in 1974, 1988 and 1989. These three readings continue and augment much of Levinas's thought as presented in the earlier works, Nine Talmudic Readings, In the Time of the Nations and Beyond the Verse. While Levinas is perhaps better known for his strictly philosophical corpus, including the highly influential Totality and Infinity and its sequel, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, his Talmudic commentaries have generated great interest in both theological and philosophical circles. These exegetical writings bear on his ever-present concern with ethics, the central focus of his philosophy. One of the most remarkable consequences of this focus, furthermore, is a renewal of philosophy's capacity to both respect and uncover the deepest meanings central to sacred as well as secular texts. Levinas's strict emphasis on the ethical duty to "the Other" separates him from currents of postmodernism that are often viewed as radically skeptical or nihilistic. This sort of outlook informs Levinas's reflections on the Talmud and the Bible?reflections that, it should be noted, have won him an admiring readership among both Jewish and Christian theologians. Among these admirers is Pope John Paul II, who has often praised and quoted his work. Originally compiled and published in French in early 1996, New Talmudic Readings includes the lectures, "The Will of Heaven and the Power of Men," "Beyond the State in the State," and "Who is Oneself?"

New Talmudic Readings

Cette etude d'Emmanuel Levinas, parue en 1930, un an avant la traduction des Meditations cartesiennes, fut l'une des premieres a faire connaitre en France les notions fondamentales de la philosophie de Husserl. Elle expose la theorie phenomenologique de l'intuition, prise comme theorie de la verite. La verite est l'apparaitre des choses memes par dela les images et les mots. En ce sens, la phenomenologie se veut le retour de la philosophie aux choses memes. Les analyses d'Emmanuel Levinas qu'on trouvera dans le present volume, et qui sont devenues aujourd'hui classiques, portent sur les ouvrages publies du vivant du Husserl. Mais elles jetent une lumiere vive sur les oeuvres posthumes du philosophe et elles sont un indispensable outil a la comprehension de la pensee contemporaine, encore marquee par l'heritage phenomenologique.

Theorie de l'Intuition Dans La Phenomenologie de Husserl (Bibliotheque D'Histoire de la Philosophie) (French Edition)

Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin

Les etudes reunies dans cet ouvrage refletent la premiere rencontre avec la phenomenologie et attestent les espoirs des premieres decouvertes. Quelques textes recents sur Husserl ont ete ajoutes a la presente edition, sous le titre de commentaires nouveaux . Elles traduisent une reflexion retournant frequemment a l'oeuvre husserlienne pour y chercher des inspirations, meme quand elle s'en separe. Les notions husserliennes d'intentionnalite et de sensibilite nous semblent offrir des possibilites encore irrealisees. Ces recherches ont enfin rendu possibles quelques autres essais sur lesquels se termine le present recueil. Ce sont les Raccourcis, projets de cheminements plus sinueux.

En Decouvrant l'Existence Avec Husserl Et Heidegger (Bibliotheque D'Histoire de la Philosophie) (French Edition)

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