The English translation of 12 essays originally published in French as AltTritT et Transcendence . Written between 1967 and 1989, the essays cover a range of concerns within continental philosophy. Common to most of the articles are a concern with a transcendental ethics as the core of the philosop
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Levinas thought influenced several generations of French philosophers and, bolstered by his reflections on the Talmud, won an admiring readership among Jewish and Christian theologians, among them Pope John Paul II, who often praised and quoted his work. . . . His writings were filled with strikingly phrased insights and with key terms and conceptsreflections, for example, on the face of the other, or on exteriority or moral proximitythat reverberated in other philosophers writings. . . . Liberation termed him a man of four cultures: Jewish, Russian, German, and French. The World Jewish Congress hailed him as a philosopher who never ceased to pursue his quest for a world morality following the Holocaust.' -- New York Times, December 27, 1995
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A Systematic Search for Values,
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When I bought this book, I was attempting to catch the crest of a wave in philosophy, expecting a lot of mental activity in the wake of the death of Levinas (1906-1995) to help put my frame of values within the scope of current thought. But I'm more of a modern fragmentist~thinking through expectations is a realm of impossibilities, and not just for me. I had previously struggled with his TOTALITY AND INFINITY, which pits the urge to control multiplicty by having a system that defines a totality against the limitless possibilities offered by multiplicity itself. A reader may find that effort like a good game of chess: being able to visualize a strategy for winning keeps the sense of involvement high, but any attempt to be more involved than Levinas would obviously be a strain. When ALTERITY & TRANSCENDENCE becomes available in paperback, it might be a better guide for those who would like to see what values Levinas was pursuing. I could confine myself to a single page (177) in an interview published in 1985 for my efforts to comprehend the complexity of his answer to the idea, "To religion would belong the task of consolation, not of demonstration." Levinas took the opportunity to demonstrate the existence of an even greater evil. "The seducer knows all the ploys of language and all its ambiguities. . . . The most dangerous of seducers is the one who carries you away with pious words to violence and contempt for the other man." Instead of trying to create a clear distinction between religion and philosophy, Levinas showed an awareness of the ways of this world, where any dialectic is capable of being a threat to human freedom when it declares war on that for which it expresses disapproval. This is theology when it involves "the voice and 'accent' of God in the Scriptures themselves." As a modern fragmentist, I have hopelessly confused what is actually written there, but that tendency is as strong as the urge to associate The Beach Boys with songs about surfing.
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Ten years ago, I wrote: The transcendence of things in relation to the lived intimacy of thought - in relation to thought as Erlebnis, in relation to the lived (which is not fully expressed by the idea of a "still confused" and non-objectifying consciousness) - the transcendence of the object, of an environment, like the ideality of a thematized notion, is opened, but is also traversed, by intentionality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Ten years ago, I wrote: The transcendence of things in relation to the lived intimacy of thought - in relation to thought as Erlebnis, in relation to the lived (which is not fully expressed by the idea of a "still confused" and non-objectifying consciousness) - the transcendence of the object, of an environment, like the ideality of a thematized notion, is opened, but is also traversed, by intentionality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 5 pages
- Proper Names (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Emmanuel Levinas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics) by Vasily Grossman on page 106, page 140, and Back Matter
- Martin Buber (Collections Spiritualites) (French Edition) by Pamela Vermes in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist, by Charlie May Simon on page 112, and Back Matter
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- Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas by Hent de de Vries on page 6, page 602, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Simon Critchley in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 265
- Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka on page 45, page 184, and Back Matter
- Other-Wise Preaching: A Postmodern Ethic for Homiletics by John S. McClure in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Between Faith and Thought: An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition (Studies in Religion and Culture) by Jeffrey W. Robbins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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