In a world in which everything is reduced "to the play of signs detached from what is signified," Levinas asks a deceptively simple question: Whence, then, comes the urge to question injustice? By seeing the demand for justice for the other—the homeless, the destitute—as a return to morality, Levinas escapes the suspect finality of any ideology. Levinas’s question is one starting point for In Proximity, a collection of seventeen essays by scholars in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, history, and religion, and their readings of Spinoza, Kant, Goethe, Wordsworth, Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Diderot, Laclos, and Mendelssohn. The title In Proximity alone speaks volumes about Levinas’s philosophy and its relevance today. "If it is true that we are, through technology, moving closer and closer to one another," writes editor Melvyn New, then "the importance of proximity and our response to it cannot be overstated." For the contributors to this volume, the question of whether we may, ethically, appropriate the object of study for our own causes has become vital. Levinas asks us to see ourselves, our own reading, "in proximity" to what is not ourselves, not our understanding of the world. The dialogue created among the essays themselves establishes an enormous diversity of texts and ideologies to which Levinas can contribute something of significant value. At a time when the secondary literature on Levinas and his work is expanding explosively, the cross-disciplinary voices gathered together in In Proximity come at precisely the right time.
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New York, Difficult Freedom, Emmanuel Levinas, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Critique of Practical Reason, Adam Smith, Duquesne University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Princeton University Press, Robinson Crusoe, Joseph Andrews, Moses Mendelssohn, Tristram Shandy, Indiana University Press, Laurence Sterne, Tower Society, Fata Morgana, Albin Michel, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Melvyn New, Stanford University Press, The Captive, Time of Nations, Abraham Adams New!
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- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 39 pages
- Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies) by Emmanuel Levinas on 13 pages
- Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (European thought) by Emmanuel Levinas on 8 pages
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 8 pages
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: Volume 4 (German Edition) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on 8 pages
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- Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation by Leora Batnitzky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement by Clark Davis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal by Laurence Sterne in Front Matter
- Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Claire Elise Katz in Back Matter
- Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Claire Elise Katz in Back Matter
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