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Informationen zum Autor edited by Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso Klappentext Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence.Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Philosophy. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics. Zusammenfassung Addresses the relationship between Emmanuel Levinas and the world of ancient thought. This book explores philosophy, and themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Adriaan Peperzak Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas To Return in a New Way: Introduction / Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder 1. The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso 2. The Eternal and the New: Socrates and Levinas on Desire and Need / Deborah Achtenberg 3. Levinas Questioning Plato on Eros and Maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez 4. Getting under the Skin: Platonic Myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler 5. Lending Assistance Always to Itself: Levinas' Infinite Conversation with Platonic Dialogue / Michael Naas 6. Ethics as First Philosophy: Aristotelian Reflections on Intelligence, Sensibility, and Transcendence / Claudia Baracchi 7. Aristotle and Levinas on War and Peace: The One against the Other / Catriona Hanley 8. Stoic Ethics and Totality in Light of Levinasian Alterity / Julie Piering 9. Of a Non-Saying That Says Nothing: Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche 10. The Time and Language of Messianism: Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo 11. Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi 12. A Trace of the Eternal Return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder 13. Ethics and Predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J. J. Altizer List of Contributors Index ...