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Levinas A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. 2008Description: 191pISBN:
  • 9780826472830
DDC classification:
  • N08.7(N86.1LE) H970
Partial contents:
The problem of Introduction: Criticism and influence Is criticism impossible? The influences of a visionary 1 Freedom and responsibility The three aspects of the `ethics of responsibility` Responsibility, consequentialism and deontology 2 Violence and the self The violated and the violent self The hypostasis of the self 3 Language and dialogue Language in the face-to-face relationship The content of the command in the face-to-face relationship 4 Scepticism and reason Levinas`s global scepticism The rational reduction of scepticism The sceptical betrayal of rationality 5 Time and history Synchrony Diachrony Anachrony Death 6 Good and evil The good in the face of others The evil of Auschwitz 7 Suffering and obsession The ambiguous evil of suffering Good and bad obsessions 8 Justice and law Justice and the resolution of responsibility The spirit of legislation and the letter of the law 9 God and atheism God in the face-to-face relationship The atheistic self Humanism and antihumanism 10 Technology and the world 11 Art and representation 12 Eroticism and gender 13 Levinas and his critics A problem of scale A problem of relevance A problem of detail Paul Ricoeur Slavoy Zizek Alain Badiou Conclusion: The finer points of Levinas`s thought
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Reference Reference DVK Library Reference -> First Floor -> N N08.7(N86.1LE) H970 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 11043515
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N08.7(N86.1DG) C676 Deleuze N08.7(N86.1DJ) W833 Derrida N08.7(N86.1HJ) T368 Habermas N08.7(N86.1LE) H970 Levinas N08.8(N56.4) B261 The Presocratic Philosophers N08.8(N57) SA593 Socrates N08.8(N59.741) G324 Plotinus

includes index and biblioraphy

The problem of Introduction: Criticism and influence Is criticism impossible? The influences of a visionary 1 Freedom and responsibility The three aspects of the `ethics of responsibility` Responsibility, consequentialism and deontology 2 Violence and the self The violated and the violent self The hypostasis of the self 3 Language and dialogue Language in the face-to-face relationship The content of the command in the face-to-face relationship 4 Scepticism and reason Levinas`s global scepticism The rational reduction of scepticism The sceptical betrayal of rationality 5 Time and history Synchrony Diachrony Anachrony Death 6 Good and evil The good in the face of others The evil of Auschwitz 7 Suffering and obsession The ambiguous evil of suffering Good and bad obsessions 8 Justice and law Justice and the resolution of responsibility The spirit of legislation and the letter of the law 9 God and atheism God in the face-to-face relationship The atheistic self Humanism and antihumanism 10 Technology and the world 11 Art and representation 12 Eroticism and gender 13 Levinas and his critics A problem of scale A problem of relevance A problem of detail Paul Ricoeur Slavoy Zizek Alain Badiou Conclusion: The finer points of Levinas`s thought

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