Vigilant Memory - Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death

Informationen zum Autor R. Clifton Spargo is an associate professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Klappentext This original and magisterial study focuses on the particular role of Emmanuel Levinas's thought in reasserting the ethical parameters for poststructuralist criticism in the aftermath of the Holocaust. More than simply situating Levinas's ethics within the larger context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo offers a new explanation of its significance in relation to history. Zusammenfassung In this original and magisterial study! Spargo uses Levinas's work to approach our understanding of the suffering and death of others! and in doing so reintroduces an essential ethical element to the reading of literature! culture! and everyday life.

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• Authors: R Clifton Spargo, R. Clifton Spargo, R. Clifton (Associate Professor Spargo, R.clifton Spargo
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2006
• EAN: 9780801883118
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8311-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, The Holocaust, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust