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This cross-disciplinary collection explores Vladimir Jankélévitch's thought on love, forgiveness, humility, virtue, bad conscience, remorse, death, reconciliation, music, and religion. It examines his relations with philosophers such as Henri Bergson and Plotinus. The chapters are linked by the theme of intangibility, or what cannot be touched.
List of contents
Introduction, Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos
Chapter 1. Giulia Maniezzi, The Metaphysics of Love and Theory of Forgiveness in Vladimir Jankélévitch's Philosophy
Chapter 2. José Manuel Beato, Paradoxes of Virtue in the Moral Philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch
Chapter 3. Marguerite La Caze, "I Can't Beat It": Dimensions of the Bad Conscience in Manchester by the Sea
Chapter 4. Tim Flanagan, An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and Plotinus
Chapter 5: Aaron T. Looney, Speaking in the Night: On the Non-Sense of Death... and Life
Chapter 6. Francesco Ferrari, Vladimir Jankélévitch's 'Diseases of Temporality' and Their Impact on Reconciliatory Processes
Chapter 7. Andrew Kelley, Jankélévitch and the Metaphysics of Humility
Chapter 8. Magdalena Zolkos, The Work of Remorse. Jankélévitchean Tropes in François Ozon's Frantz
Chapter 9. Clovis Salgado Gontijo, The Philosophy of the je-ne-sais-quoi and the Possibility of a Non-religious Spirituality
Chapter 10. Paul Atkinson, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Henri Bergson and the Emergence of a Transitory Aesthetics
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Edited by Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos - Contributions by Giulia Maniezzi; José Manuel Beato; Marguerite La Caze; Tim Flanagan; Aaron T. Looney; Francesco Ferrari; Andrew Kelley; Magdalena Zolkos; Clovis Salgado Gontijo and Paul Atkinson
Summary
This cross-disciplinary collection explores Vladimir Jankélévitch’s thought on love, forgiveness, humility, virtue, bad conscience, remorse, death, reconciliation, music, and religion. It examines his relations with philosophers such as Henri Bergson and Plotinus. The chapters are linked by the theme of intangibility, or what cannot be touched.
