Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| ||||||||||||||||||
 Sell Back Your Copy for $4.85
Whether you buy it used on Amazon for $15.00 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $4.85.
Used Price$15.00
Trade-in Price$4.85
Price after
Trade-in$10.15 |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. "The Levinas Reader" collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand's introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas's work and situates each chapter within his general contribution to phenomenology, aesthetics, religion, politics and, above all, ethics. Each essay has been prefaced with a brief introduction presenting the basic issues and the necessary background, and suggesting ways to study the text further.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
'The Phenolmenological Theory of Beings: the Absolute Existence of Consciousness' is taken from Levinas's first book, La theorie de I'intuition dans la phenomenologie de Husserl (Paris: Alcan), published in 1930. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rabbinical doctors, immanent perception, conatus essendi, espace vital, hither side, single precept, mauvaise conscience, absolute passivity, difficult freedom, finite freedom, bonne conscience, beyond essence, persecuted one, being hostage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Old Testament, Mount Gerizim, Rabbi Simeon, Emmanuel Levinas, Rabbi Akiba, Alphonso Lingis, Mount Ebal, Fata Morgana, Most High, Michel Leiris, The Theory of Intuition, Les Temps Modernes, Martinus Nijhoff, Middle Ages, Rabbi Hayyim Volozhiner, Rabbi Jose, Waiting Forgetting, Editions de Minuit, Jacques Derrida, Judah of Kefar Acco, Paul Ricoeur, The Hague, Baba Mezi'a, King Messiah New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
'The Phenolmenological Theory of Beings: the Absolute Existence of Consciousness' is taken from Levinas's first book, La theorie de I'intuition dans la phenomenologie de Husserl (Paris: Alcan), published in 1930. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rabbinical doctors, immanent perception, conatus essendi, espace vital, hither side, single precept, mauvaise conscience, absolute passivity, difficult freedom, finite freedom, bonne conscience, beyond essence, persecuted one, being hostage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Old Testament, Mount Gerizim, Rabbi Simeon, Emmanuel Levinas, Rabbi Akiba, Alphonso Lingis, Mount Ebal, Fata Morgana, Most High, Michel Leiris, The Theory of Intuition, Les Temps Modernes, Martinus Nijhoff, Middle Ages, Rabbi Hayyim Volozhiner, Rabbi Jose, Waiting Forgetting, Editions de Minuit, Jacques Derrida, Judah of Kefar Acco, Paul Ricoeur, The Hague, Baba Mezi'a, King Messiah New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 57
books:
See all 57 books this book cites
100
books
cite this book:
See all 100 books citing this book
- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 11 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 7 pages
- Existence and Existents by Emmanuel Levinas on 6 pages
- Face to Face (43 Light Street, Book 13) by Rebecca York on 6 pages
- Face to Face with Levinas (SUNY Series in Philosophy) by Richard A. Cohen on 5 pages
See all 57 books this book cites
- Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (Routledge Jewish Studies Series) by Sean Hand on 7 pages
- Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma by Ana Douglass on 4 pages
- Hegel's Ethics of Recognition by Robert R. Williams on page 54, page 85, and Back Matter
- The Continental Aesthetics Reader by Clive Cazeaux in Front Matter, page 306, and Back Matter
- The Continental Philosophy Reader by Richard Kearney in Front Matter, page 123, and page 124
See all 100 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
