Michael L. Morgan

Discovering Levinas

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael L. Morgan shows how Emmanuel Levinas faces central philosophical problems that figure in twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780521759687
• ISBN-10: 0521759684
• Artikelnr.: 26032984

Autorenporträt

Michael Morgan works an office job downtown, is a member of a social committee and loves to cook. A simple man with big dreams.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Auschwitz, politics, and the twentieth century
2. Phenomenology and transcendental philosophy
3. The ethical content of the face-to-face
4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday
5. Meaning, culture, and language
6. Subjectivity and the self
7. God and philosophy
8. Time, Messianism, and diachrony
9. Ethical realism and contemporary moral philosophy
10. Beyond language and expressibility
11. Judaism, ethics, and religion
Conclusion: Levinas and the primacy of the ethical - Kant, Kierkegaard, and Derrida
Appendix: facing reasons.

Rezensionen

'This clear, fascinating, and outstandingly learned study is remarkable for, among other things, bringing Levinas into fruitful conversation with notable Anglo-American philosophers. Morgan continually compares what Levinas has to say on a wide range of philosophical topics with the views of, e.g., Donald Davidson, John McDowell, Christine Korsgaard, Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam, and Charles Taylor. The result is an exemplary model of how to write across the so-called analytic/continental divide. It is obvious that Morgan has thought both hard and originally about how to teach Levinas, about how to introduce a figure whose writings are apt to come across as impenetrable. The result is stunning - a work of impressive depth and wonderful accessibility.' David Finkelstein, University of Chicago