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Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas

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Description for Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas Hardback. Editor(s): Chanter, Tina. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.

This volume of essays, all but one previously unpublished, investigates the question of Levinas’s relationship to feminist thought. Levinas, known as the philosopher of the Other, was famously portrayed by Simone de Beauvoir as a patriarchal thinker who denigrated women by viewing them as the paradigmatic Other. Reconsideration of the validity of this interpretation of Levinas and exploration of what more positively can be derived from his thought for feminism are two of this volume’s primary aims.

Levinas breaks with Heidegger’s phenomenology by understanding the ethical relation to the Other, the face-to-face, as exceeding the language of ontology. The ethical orientation ... Read more

Contributors are Alison Ainley, Diane Brody, Catherine Chalier, Luce Irigaray, Claire Katz, Kelly Oliver, Diane Perpich, Stella Sandford, Sonya Sikka, and Ewa Ziarek.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Re-Reading the Canon
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271021133
SKU
V9780271021133
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About Tina Chanter
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1930. He was influenced by Edmund Husserl, with whom he studied phenomenology, and Martin Heidegger, among others. It was mainly during the 1950s that Levinas began to work out a highly original philosophy of ethics with the aim of going beyond the ethically neutral tradition ... Read more

Reviews for Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas
“Chanter has assembles an excellent collection of essays. She acknowledges the conflictual relationship that has existed between feminist scholars and Levinas since feminist theory arrived on the philosophical scene. The collection is excellent for feminist scholars who want an introduction to Levinas and important for scholars, upper-division undergraduates, and graduate students of Levinas and feminist philosophy and theology.” ... Read more

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