Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) placed ethics at the foundation of philosophy; during his life, which spanned almost the entire twentieth century, he witnessed devastating events that could not have been more demanding of that philosophical stance. "Unforeseen History" covers the years 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work - especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism - offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews. The earliest essays in "Unforeseen History" discuss phenomenology, a subject Levinas introduced to a great many French thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre. In his prescient 1934 essay "Some Thoughts on the Philosophy of Hitlerism", moreover, he confronted a philosophy that had yet to manifest itself fully in cataclysm.
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- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Logical Investigations, 2 Volume-Set by Edmund Husserl in Front Matter, page 64, and Back Matter
- Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Studies in Phenomenology of the Constitution (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl - Collected Works) by Edmund Husserl in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Time and the Other by Emmanuel Levinas in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) by Evan Selinger in Back Matter
- Humanism of the Other by Emmanuel Levinas in Back Matter
- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers by Alan D. Schrift in Back Matter
- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers by Alan D. Schrift in Back Matter
- Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) by Richard A. Cohen on page 120
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