Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) (Paperback)

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...this is an exacting study of how Levinas's thought unfolds...[the book] will prove useful and important to those already familiar with his work..
– Religious Studies Review, Vol. 23, April 1997

...this is an exacting study of how Levinass thought unfolds...[the book] will prove useful and important to those already familiar with his work..
– Religious Studies Review, Vol. 23, April 1997

Llewelyn provides an intricate and astoundingly subtle account of the genealogy of of Levinas's work ... It impacts not only the way we can think about philosophy, but also the ubiquitous and confounding experience of others and our relations to them.
–David Justin Hodge, Vanderbilt University

Llewelyn provides an intricate and astoundingly subtle account of the genealogy of of Levinass work ... It impacts not only the way we can think about philosophy, but also the ubiquitous and confounding experience of others and our relations to them.
–David Justin Hodge, Vanderbilt University

This is one of the most significant book-length engagements with the thought of Levinas in any language. It is of the same order of importance as Derrida's seminal essay on Levinas, Violence and Metaphysics. At this level and intensity of reading the distinction between original works and commentary falls away; here we are in the presence of thinking itself, with all its difficulty and opacity.
–Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

This is one of the most significant book-length engagements with the thought of Levinas in any language. It is of the same order of importance as Derridas seminal essay on Levinas, Violence and Metaphysics. At this level and intensity of reading the distinction between original works and commentary falls away; here we are in the presence of thinking itself, with all its difficulty and opacity.
–Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

This is the most important full length study of Levinas in any language, because one completes the book both better informed and a better philosopher.
–Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis

Product Description

Taking as its guiding thread the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of sensibility, religion, enjoyment, femininity, eros, justice and the political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of chapters that give a hesitant but tolerant discussion of the question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and metaphorics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 31, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 041510730X
• ISBN-13: 978-0415107303
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
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