| Description |
xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Purdue series in the history of philosophy |
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Purdue University series in the history of philosophy.
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| Note |
Includes French text and English translation of: La philosophie et l'idée de l'infini. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The one for the other -- Thought and existence -- Roots and traditions -- A global characterization of Levinas's attitude toward Heidegger's thought -- Phenomenology -- Otherness -- The other and I -- The-one-for-the-other -- Equality and asymmetry -- Intersubjectivity and society -- Language and thought -- Time -- God -- Method -- 2. A commentary on "philosophy and the idea of the infinite" -- Autonomy and heteronomy -- The primacy of the same, or narcissism -- Narcissism and Western thought -- The other as the calling into question of freedom -- Heideggerian ontology as a philosophy of the same -- The idea of the infinite -- The idea of the infinite and the face of the other -- The idea of the infinite as desire -- The idea of the infinite and conscience -- 3. Text: "La philosophie et l'idée de l'infini -- 4. Text and commentary "Philosophy and the idea of the infinite" -- Autonomy and heteronomy -- Narcissism, or the primacy of the same -- The idea of the infinite -- The idea of the infinite and the face of the other -- The idea of the infinite is desire -- The idea of the infinite and conscience -- 5. A key to totality and infinity -- The preface -- The same and the other -- Interiority and economy -- The face and exteriority -- Beyond the face -- Conclusions -- 6. Beyond being. |
| Language |
Text in English with some French. |
| Summary |
The fruit of the author's many courses on Emmanuel Levinas in Europe and the United States, this study is a clear introduction for graduate students and scholars who are not yet familiar with Levinas's difficult but exceptionally important oeuvre. After a first chapter on the existential background and the key issues of his thought, chapters 2, 3, and 4 concentrate on and include a short text, "Philosophy and the idea of the Infinite," which contains the program of Levinas's entire oeuvre. Chapter 5 is a companion to the reading of Levinas's first opus magnum, Totality and the Infinite. It analyzes the structure of this book and shows how its questions and answers adhere together. "Through phenomenology toward a saying beyond phenomena and essence" could be the summary of Levinas's attempt to think, with and against Martin Heidegger, the otherness of the Other. -- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
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Lévinas, Emmanuel. (OCoLC)fst00046641
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Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 (DE-588)118572350
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Lévinas, Emmanuel.
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Other (Philosophy)
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Other (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01048904
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Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
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Einführung (DE-588)4151278-9
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Philosophy.
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| Indexed Term |
Lévinas, Emmanuel |
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Other (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Einführung.
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| Added Author |
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Philosophie et l'idée de l'infini. English & French. 1992.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor, 1929- To the other. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1993 (OCoLC)622196784 |
| ISBN |
1557530238 (alk. paper) |
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9781557530233 (alk. paper) |
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1557530246 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781557530240 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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