TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutchens, B C
AU  - Hutchens,B C
TI  - Levinas:  A Guide for the Perplexed
SN  - 9780826472830
U1  - N08.7(N86.1LE) 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.
N1  - 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
ER  -