| Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics Contributor(s): Llewelyn, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 041510730X ISBN-13: 9780415107303 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 94033895 |
| Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |