Brian Treanor

Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate

Buch

Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, Brian Treanor asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self. The philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Gabriel Marcel provide the point of embarkation for understanding the two positions on this question. Levinas and Marcel were contemporaries, whose philosophies exhibit remarkably similar concern for the other but nevertheless remain fundamentally incompatible. Thus, these two thinkers provide a striking illustration of both the proximity of and the unbridgeable gap between two accounts of otherness. Aspects of Alterity delves i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8232-2684-9
EAN: 9780823226849
Produktnummer: 2404167
Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 358 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.9 cm 608 g
Reihenbandnummer: 54
Gewicht: 608

Über den Autor

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an earthy hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.