Emmanuel Levinas

The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics

By: Edith Wyschogrod

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Edith Wyschogrod presents the first full-length study in English of the important contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It is a revision of the author's earlier study and includes discussions of his recent writings as well as current scholarship. Dr. Wyschogrod's extensive
discussion of Levinas's relation to Judaism, especially his use of literature from the Torah and other religious writings, will be of interest to religious scholars. The author compares Levinas's thought with that of his contemporaries, most notably Jacques Derrida and Husserl.

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"Wyschogrod focuses upon the unique and innovative aspects of Levinas, [his] attempts to base metaphysics on ethics rather than the traditional subordination of ethical theories to preconceived metaphysics."-- "--The Modern Schoolman"

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxix
Abbreviations of Works by Levinas	p. xxxiii
Early Themes	p. 1
Being and Beginning	p. 2
Indolence and Fatigue	p. 4
Being-in-General: The il y a	p. 7
Dasein and Hypostasis	p. 10
Need, Desire, and the World	p. 18
Husserl and the Problem of Ontology	p. 28
Phenomenological Method and Ontology	p. 29
Naturalistic Ontology and Psychologism	p. 31
The Problem of Intentionality	p. 34
The Meaning of Essences	p. 40
The Phenomenological Reduction	p. 45
Intentionality as Movement	p. 46
The Break with Husserl	p. 48
From Self to Same	p. 56
The Self as Life	p. 57
Human Corporeity and Need	p. 64
Life and the Elemental	p. 67
Habitation	p. 71
Art and the Elemental	p. 76
The Foundation of Ethical Metaphysics	p. 84
What Separated Being Means	p. 85
Totality and Exteriority	p. 88
The Face and the Problem of Appearance	p. 90
The Break with Ontology	p. 93
The Idea of the Infinite	p. 97
Metaphysics and Justice	p. 102
Beyond Temporality	p. 113
Violence and Time	p. 114
Being-toward-Death	p. 119
The Phenomenology of Love	p. 126
The Phenomenon of Transcendence	p. 132
Fecundity	p. 133
Temporality and Infinity	p. 136
What Is Language?	p. 141
Language and Discourse	p. 142
An Alternative View of Language	p. 153
The Trace	p. 158
Responsibility	p. 164
Philosophy and the Covenant	p. 176
What Judaism Means	p. 176
Historical Method and Traditional Texts	p. 185
The Phenomenon of Atonement	p. 188
Jewish Messianism: The Break with Totality	p. 194
The Temptation of Modernity	p. 208
The Meaning of Society	p. 214
Conclusions	p. 222
The Objectivity of Values	p. 222
Morality and Metaphysics	p. 228
Language	p. 234
The Idea of the Infinite	p. 236
Key to Special Terminology	p. 243
Works Cited	p. 247
Index	p. 253
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