The Problem with Levinas
Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon Critchley's aim in this book is to provide a less familiar, more troubling, and (hopefully) truer account of Levinas's work. A new dramatic method for reading Levinas is proposed, where the fundamental problem of his work is seen as the attempt to escape from the tragedyof Heidegger's philosophy and the way in which that philosophy shaped political events in the last century. Extensive and careful attention is paid to Levinas' fascinating but often…
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Weitere Autoren: Dianda, Alexis (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-105895-0
- EAN: 9780191058950
- Produktnummer: 19557718
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'560 KB
Über den Autor
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little ... Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, The Mattering of Matter, Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society (with Tom McCarthy), and Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (with Jamieson Webter). An experimentalnew work, Memory Theatre, and a book called Bowie were published in September 2014. He is moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.
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