Nietzsche and Levinas - 'After the Death of a Certain God'

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jill Stauffer and Bettina G. Bergo Klappentext Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas! challenging the belief that the two thinkers held fundamentally antithetical views. Both Nietzsche and Levinas questioned the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche posed dilemmas of self and ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and technological change! Levinas wrestled with subjectivity and the possibility of ethics in the wake of the Shoah. Both philosophers argued that goodness exists independently of a naïve faith in reason-for Nietzsche! goodness was an act moving beyond reaction and resentment! whereas Levinas defined it as something enacted rather than theorized. In a world at once without God and haunted by multiple divinities! both philosophers rejected transcendental foundations for politics and worked toward an alternative vision encompassing a positive sense of creation! a complex fraternity or friendship! and rival notions of responsibility.The volume's three sections group arguments around the following debates! which are far from being settled: What is the reevaluation of ethics (and life) that Nietzsche and Levinas propose! and what does this mean for politics and sociality? What is a human subject-and what are substance! permanence! causality! and identity! whether social or ethical-in the wake of the demise of God as concept and belief? Finally! how can a "God" still inhabit philosophy! and what sort of name is this in the thought of Nietzsche and Levinas? Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Texts by Nietzsche and LevinasIntroduction Bettina Bergo and Jill StaufferPart I. Revaluing Ethics: Time! Teaching! and the Ambiguity of Forces1. The Malice in Good Deeds! by Alphonso Lingis2. The Imperfect: Levinas! Nietzsche! and the Autonomous Subjec! by Jill Stauffer3. Nietzsche and Levinas: The Impossible Relation ! by John-Michel Longneaux4. Ethical Ambivalence! by Judith Butler5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra! Thus Listened the Rabbis: Philosophy! Education! and the Cycle of Enlightenment! by Claire Elise KatzPart II. The Subject: Sensing! Suffering! and Responding6. The Flesh Made Word; Or The Two Origins! by Bettina Bergo7. Nietzsche! Levinas! and the Meaning of Responsibility! by Rosalyn Diprose8. Beginning's Abyss: On Solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas! by John Drabinski9. Beyond Suffering I Have No Alibi! by David Boothroyd10. Levinas! Spinozism! Nietzsche! and the Body! by Richard A. CohenPart III. Heteronomy and Ubiquity: God in Philosophy11. Suffering Redeemable and Irredeemable! by John Llewelyn12. Levinas's Gaia Scienza! by Aïcha Liviana Messina13. Levinas: Another Ascetic Priest?! by Silvia Benso14. Apocalypse! Eschatology! and the Death of God! by Brian SchroederBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex ...

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• Authors: J Stauffer, Jill Stauffer, Jill Bergo Stauffer
• Assisted by: Bettina Bergo (Editor), Bettina G. Bergo (Editor), Bergo Bettina (Editor), Jill Stauffer (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780231144056
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14405-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Structuralism and Post-structuralism