Provocation of Levinas - Rethinking the Other

This book brings together the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three key areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy and Levinas's relation to other philosophers.

List of contents

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

About the author

Robert Bernasconi, David Wood

Summary

This book brings together the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three key areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy and Levinas's relation to other philosophers.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Wood Bernasconi
• Assisted by: Robert Bernasconi (Editor), Bernasconi Robert (Editor), David Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415755016
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75501-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory