Facing the Other - The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Feminine, Otherness, Dwelling, Alison Ainley; Chapter 2 On Substitution, David F. Ford; Chapter 3 Levinas and Freud, Steven Gans; Chapter 4 Shadowing Ethics, Seán Hand; Chapter 5 ‘Let’s Leave God Out of This’, Michael Holland; Chapter 6 Infinition and Apophansis, Benjamin Hutchens; Chapter 7 A Supreme Heteronomy?, Philip Leonard; Chapter 8 Levinas and the Jewish Ideal of the Sage, A. H. Lesser; Chapter 9 On Time and Salvation, Graham Ward;

About the author

Seán Hand is Professor of French and Head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also author of Emmanuel Levinas (Routledge, 2008), editor of The Levinas Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, reprint) and translator of Levinas’s Difficult Freedom (Johns Hopkins, 2010, 9th reprint). He is equally author of Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris (Legenda, 2004).

Summary

Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Hand, Hand Sean
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.1996
• EAN: 9780700704156
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-0415-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Regional Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Regional / International studies, Phenomenology and Existentialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General