Levinas on the primacy of the ethical : philosophy as prophecy /

Exploring the relationship between phenomenology and religion in Levinas's writings The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas affirms both the urgency of peace and the fact that peace is never finally assured. This tension is a question of responsibility and of the ethical relation in which that respo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloechl, Jeffrey, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022].
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Philosophy and Prophecy: An Internal Reading of Levinas
  • Situation and Violence: Levinas, Heidegger, and Sartre
  • The Spirituality of Captivity: Being Jewish
  • Plurality and Infinity: Ethics as Religion
  • The Ethics of Desire: Levinas and Psychoanalysis
  • Speech and Transcendence: Language as Ethical Relation
  • The One God and the Other: Levinas and Christian Theology
  • Conclusion. Prophecy and the Ethical Plot of Humanity.