Simon Critchley / Robert Bernasconi (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Levinas

Herausgeber: Bernasconi, Robert; Simon, Critchley; Critchley, Simon

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Produktbeschreibung

Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521665650
• ISBN-10: 0521665655
• Artikelnr.: 21723507

Autorenporträt

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, Directeur de Programme at the College International de Philosophie and Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt.

Inhaltsangabe

Emmanuel Levinas: a disparate inventory Simon Critchley
1. Introduction Simon Critchley
2. Levinas and Judaism Hilary Putnam
3. Levinas and the face of the other Bernhard Waldenfels
4. Levinas's critique of Husserl Rudolf Bernet
5. Levinas and the Talmud Catherine Chalier
6. Levinas and language John Llewelyn
7. Levinas, feminism and the feminine Stella Sandford
8. Sincerity and the end of theodicy: three remarks on Levinas and Kant Paul Davies
9. Language and alterity in the thought of Levinas Edith Wyschograd
10. The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas's writings Gerald Bruns
11. What is the question to which 'substitution' is the answer? Robert Bernasconi
12. Evil and the temptation of theodicy Richard J. Bernstein.