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Is It Righteous to Be?: Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas
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Paperback. In the twenty interviews collected in this volume, seventeen of which appear in English for the first time, Levinas sets forth the central features of his ethical philosophy and discusses biographical matters not available elsewhere. Editor(s): Robbins, Jill. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
Recent debates within Continental philosophy have decisively renewed the question of the ethical, with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) as its center. Coming from yet in contestation with the phenomenological traditions of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas defines ethics as an originary response to the face of the other. For him, language is an exception to a habitual economy that represses alterity and maintains the asymmetry and distance constitutive of the nontotalizing relation to the other. Ethics occurs in the interlocutionary relation to the other, and interpellation-a kind of interruption by speaking-is the essential feature of ethical language.Between 1982 and ... Read more
Recent debates within Continental philosophy have decisively renewed the question of the ethical, with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) as its center. Coming from yet in contestation with the phenomenological traditions of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas defines ethics as an originary response to the face of the other. For him, language is an exception to a habitual economy that represses alterity and maintains the asymmetry and distance constitutive of the nontotalizing relation to the other. Ethics occurs in the interlocutionary relation to the other, and interpellation-a kind of interruption by speaking-is the essential feature of ethical language.Between 1982 and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Condition
New
Weight
434g
Number of Pages
321
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804743099
SKU
V9780804743099
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About Emmanuel Levinas
Jill Robbins is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the State University of New York, Buffalo
Reviews for Is It Righteous to Be?: Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas
Includes the most significant biographical documentation of [Levinas] yet to appear in English, with much new information on his Jewish upbringing and influences. More substantially, [the collection of interviews] record, better than any of his other writings, how Levinas conceived of the relation between ethics and politics.
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