Nicholas (Hrsg.) Bunnin

Lévinas

Chinese and Western Perspectives

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Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century's most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers. For Chinese philosophers there are special reasons to pursue an interest in Lévinas, centering on his regard for ethics, rather than Husserlian epistemology or Heideggerian ontology, as first philosophy, a perspective that can be compared to the priority of a moral metaphysics for major figures in contemporary Neo-Confucianism. The thirteen outstanding contributors explain and assess other crucial features of Lévinas's philosophy with clarity, elegance and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gu, Linyu (Hrsg.) / Yang, Dachun (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4443-0963-8
EAN: 9781444309638
Produktnummer: 13848128
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'134 KB

Über den Autor

Nicholas Bunnin is Director of the Philosophy Project, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford and Chairman of the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China. He co-edited Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell 2002) and has written on Chinese and comparative philosophy. He co-edited The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (1997, 2nd edition 2003) and co-authored The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy (2004). Yang Dachun is Professor of Philosophy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou. He co-edited A Century with Lévinas or the Destiny of the Other (2008) and wrote Language, Body and Other: Three Main Themes of Contemporary French Philosophy (forthcoming). Earlier books include studies of Kierkegaard, Derrida, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, and he has translated major works of Merleau-Ponty into Chinese. Linyu Gu is Managing Editor, Journal of Chinese Philosophy. She has written on Whitehead's process philosophy in relation to Chinese Philosophy and on Japanese philosophy.