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Raoul Moati - Levinas and the Night of Being - 9780823273195 - V9780823273195
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Levinas and the Night of Being

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Description for Levinas and the Night of Being hardcover. Can we truly claim that metaphysics is over? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity and a careful elaboration of Levinas's concept of the "nocturnal event" that surpasses the light of understanding, Raoul Moati opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics." Translator(s): Wyche, Daniel. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPJ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.

Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after “end of metaphysics”? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.
Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger’s ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of “being” beyond Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823273195
SKU
V9780823273195
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99-15

About Raoul Moati
Jocelyn Benoist is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Reviews for Levinas and the Night of Being
"Raoul Moati's Levinas and the Night of Being represents a turning point in Levinasian exegesis... Moati departs from the teleological illusion of reading Levinas's early works against the backdrop of the late material-as if the 'truth' of the former somehow lies hidden within the latter. Against this tendency, Moati rather simply takes up Totality and Infinity and reads it for ... Read more

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