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Informationen zum Autor John Llewelyn, following retirement from the University pf Edinburgh hs been visiting professor at Loyola University of Chicago and Memphis State University. Klappentext From the relative obscurity in which Levinas's work languished until very recently, Emmanuel Levinas must now be judged as one of the most influential figures in contemporary Continental philosophy. There is no better guide than John Lewelyn to lead one through the thickets of Levinas's prose. Bursting with questions, multiple references, cascading citations and multilingual puns and nuances, this book is the compelling record of intellectual obsession. Taking as its guiding thre the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of the Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of sensibility, religion, enjoyment, feminity, eros, justice and the political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of chapters that give a hestitant but tolerant discussion of the question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and metaphorics. The book concludes with a sensitive reading of the autobiographical epigraphs to Levinas's "Otherwise than Being... and a consideration of the Holocaust. Zusammenfassung Following Levinas's philosophical works in roughly chronological order, Llewelyn finally brings his work to a wider audience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction, Part I, 1. Ontological claustrophobia, 2. Ontic accomplishment, 3. Before time, 4. Announcing time, 5. Announcing the Other, Part II, 6. Being faced, 7. Before and beyond the face, 8. The manifold of alterity, 9. From sensibility to sense, 10. Generations, Part III, 11. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 12. Atheology, 13. Anthology, 14. Tropes, 15. Ethical agoraphobia, Notes, Bibliography, Index...
