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Facing the Other : The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas - Sean Hand

Facing the Other

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

By: Sean Hand

Hardcover | 11 April 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Emmanuel Levinas is one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His work spans and encapsulates the major philosophical and ethical concerns of the twentieth century, combining the insights of a basic phenomenological training with the demands of a Jewish culture and its basis in the endless exegesis of Talmudic reading. His concerns and subjects are wide: they include the Other, the body, infinity, women, Jewish-Christian relations, Zionism and the impulses and limits of philosophical language itself. This collection explicates Levinas's major contribution to these debates, namely the idea of the primacy of ethics over ontology or epistemology. It investigates how, in the wake of a post-structuralist orthodoxy, scholars and practitioners in such fields as literary theory, cultural studies, feminism and psychoanalysis are turning to Levinas's work to articulate a rediscovered concern with the ethical dimension of their discipline. And it stresses the largely assumed but unexplored Jewish dimension of Levinas's work. Contributors include: Alison Ainley, David Ford, Steven Gans, Sean Hand, Michael Holland, Benjamin Hutchens, Philip Leonard, Harry Lesser, Graham Ward. Contributors include: Alison Ainley, David Ford, Steven Gans, Sean Hand, Michael Holland, Benjamin Hutchens, Philip Leonard, Harry Lesser, Graham Ward.

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