Emmanuel Levinas

Informationen zum Autor Seán Hand is Professor of French and Head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His central research interests focus on twentieth-century French writing and philosophy. Zusammenfassung Sean Hand sets Levinas’s work in its intellectual and social contexts concluding with an assessment of his continuing influence in contemporary theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Why Levinas? Key Ideas 1. Biography 2. Phenomenology and Judaism 3. Totality and Infinity 4. Otherwise than Being 5. Aesthetics 6. Talmudic Readings 7. Difficult Freedom: Politics and Ethics After Levinas Works Cited Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Sean Hand, Seán Hand, Sean (University of Warwick Hand
• Assisted by: Robert Eaglestone (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2008
• EAN: 9780415402767
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40276-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers; Routledge Critical Thinkers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -