Levinas And The Greek Heritage
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Levinas And The Greek Heritage
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Author : Jean-Marc Narbonne
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2006
Levinas And The Greek Heritage written by Jean-Marc Narbonne and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy categories.
Levinas and the Greek Heritage shows that throughout his career, Emmanuel Levinas always admired and recognized his profound debt to Plato and to the philosophical tradition he initiated, which have been largely transmitted to us by the Neoplatonists, most notably Plotinus and Proclus. How can we read Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence in any other way than as some sort of Neoplatonic programme, prolonging Plato's Good "beyond being" of the republic VI, 509b, in the direction of the "other man," the one which in his "nudity" and "fragility," opens for us the horizon of a new humanism? There are many ways by which one can attempt to go over and above Being, not only a Greek way (primordially metaphysical), but also a Biblical way (mainly ethical). One of the interests of Levinas' philosophy is to show us the hidden community - and perhaps unavoidable interdependency - of these two approaches. One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France shows that during the Twentieth century a retrieval of Neoplatonism is a powerful hidden feature of French philosophy and theology, of spiritual and institutional life. Beginning with Henri Bergson, it passes by way of figures like Maurice Blondel, A.J. Festugire, Henri de Lubac, Jean Trouillard, Henry Dumry, and culminates with Michel Henry, Pierre Hadot, and Jean-Luc Marion. The book examines the particular character Neoplatonism takes in this retrieval, and traces connections between leading figures within the French and Anglophone worlds.
Levinas And The Ancients
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Author : Brian Schroeder
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-13
Levinas And The Ancients written by Brian Schroeder and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-13 with Philosophy categories.
The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an international group of philosophers address the relationship between Levinas and the world of ancient thought. In addition to philosophy, themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are also explored. The volume as a whole provides a unified and extended discussion of how an engagement between Levinas and thinkers from the ancient tradition works to enrich understandings of both. This book opens new pathways in ancient and modern philosophical studies as it illuminates new interpretations of Levinas' ethics and his social and political philosophy.
Emmanuel Levinas
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Author : Abi Doukhan
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-08-23
Emmanuel Levinas written by Abi Doukhan and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-23 with Philosophy categories.
Our era is profoundly marked by the phenomenon of exile and it is has become increasingly urgent to rethink the concept of exile and our stance towards it. This renewed reflection on the problem of exile brings to the fore a number of questions regarding the traditionally negative connotation of exile. Is there not another way to understand the condition of exile? Permeated with references to the 'stranger', the 'other' and 'exteriority', the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas signifies a positive understanding of exile. This original and compelling book distills from Levinas's philosophy a wisdom of exile, for the first time shedding a positive light on the condition of exile itself. Abi Doukhan argues that Levinas's philosophy can be understood as a comprehensive philosophy of exile, from his ethics to his thoughts on society, love, knowledge, spirituality and art, thereby presenting a comprehensive view of the philosophy of Levinas himself as well as a renewed understanding of the wealth and contribution of exile to a given society.
Dialogues With Contemporary Continental Thinkers
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Author : Richard Kearney
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1984
Dialogues With Contemporary Continental Thinkers written by Richard Kearney and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Philosophy, Modern categories.
Radical Passivity
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Author : Benda Hofmeyr
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-01-21
Radical Passivity written by Benda Hofmeyr and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-21 with Philosophy categories.
Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .
L Vinas Et L H Ritage Grec
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Author : Jean-Marc Narbonne
language : fr
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Release Date : 2004
L Vinas Et L H Ritage Grec written by Jean-Marc Narbonne and has been published by Presses Université Laval this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Neoplatonism categories.
Le present livre examine l'existence d'un neoplatonisme a la fois agissant et meconnu au sein de la culture contemporaine. Emmanuel Levinas se voit ici questionne a partir d'un cadre interpretatif inhabituel, et l'on montre en quoi Bergson, Derrida, Brehier, Marion ou Henry participent d'un large courant intellectuel renovateur, marque du sceau lointain de l'henologie neoplatonicienne.
Toward The Outside
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Author : Michael Bradley Smith
language : en
Publisher: Duquesne
Release Date : 2005
Toward The Outside written by Michael Bradley Smith and has been published by Duquesne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
'Toward the Outside' offers a systematic exposition of the essential concepts & themes that circulate throughout the thought of Emmanuel Levinas.
The Lesser Good
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Author : Wendy C. Hamblet
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2009-01-16
The Lesser Good written by Wendy C. Hamblet and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-16 with Philosophy categories.
The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the "higher goods" of ethics—humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the weak and suffering.
From The Other To The Totally Other
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Author : Andrius Valevičius
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1988
From The Other To The Totally Other written by Andrius Valevičius and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.
Emmanuel Levinas was born in Lithuania in 1906. He went to France in 1923 and later became the initiator of Husserlian phenomenology in that country. His influence in the works of many contemporary French intellectuals has been great. His most significant contribution has been to reintroduce the question of the existence of God into philosophical debate. This book examines just how Levinas does this. It is a study of his «philosophy of religion, » his «phenomenology of the other person» and his critique of Western ontology.
Levinas
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Author : Colin Davis
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-28
Levinas written by Colin Davis and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Philosophy categories.
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century. In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the Other, the Face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of interpretation. Davis traces the development of Levinas's thought over six decades, describing the context in which he worked, and the impact of his writings. He argues that Levinas's work remains tied to the ontological tradition with which he wants to break, and demonstrates how his later writing tries to overcome this dependency by its increasingly disruptive, sometimes opaque, textual practice. He discusses Levinas's theological writings and his relationship to Judaism, as well as the reception of his work by contemporary thinkers, arguing that the influence of his work has led to a growing interest in ethical issues among poststructuralist and postmodernist thinkers in recent years. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in continental philosophy, French studies, literary theory and theology.