The Cambridge introduction to Emmanuel Levinas [electronic resource] / Michael L. Morgan.

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  • B2430.L484 M665 2011eb
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Responding to atrocity in the twentieth century; 2. How to read Levinas: normativity and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Subjectivity and the self: passivity and freedom; 6. God, philosophy, and the ground of the ethical; 7. Time, history, and messianism; 8. Greek and Hebrew; Conclusions, puzzles, problems; Annotated reading list and bibliography.
Summary: "This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the philosophical core of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Responding to atrocity in the twentieth century; 2. How to read Levinas: normativity and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Subjectivity and the self: passivity and freedom; 6. God, philosophy, and the ground of the ethical; 7. Time, history, and messianism; 8. Greek and Hebrew; Conclusions, puzzles, problems; Annotated reading list and bibliography.

"This book provides a clear and helpful overview of the philosophical core of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant and interesting philosophers of the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

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