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Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God
Jill Stauffer (Ed.)
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Description for Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God
Hardback. Editor(s): Stauffer, Jill; Bergo, Bettina G. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer possibility of ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exists independently of calculative reason--for Nietzsche, goodness arises in a creative act moving beyond reaction and ressentiment; Levinas argues that goodness occurs ... Read more
The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer possibility of ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exists independently of calculative reason--for Nietzsche, goodness arises in a creative act moving beyond reaction and ressentiment; Levinas argues that goodness occurs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231144049
SKU
V9780231144049
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About Jill Stauffer (Ed.)
Jill Stauffer is an assistant professor of philosophy at John Jay College, City University of New York. Bettina Bergo is associate professor of philosophy at the Universite de Montreal. The author of Levinas Between Ethics and Politics, she has translated Levinas's Of God Who Comes to Mind and other works by the philosopher, and coedited Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-enclosure: ... Read more
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Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo have done the scholarly community a great service with Nietzsche and Levinas.
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