Liturgy of the neighbor : Emmanuel Levinas and the religion of responsibility / Jeffrey Bloechl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloechl, Jeffrey, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Responsibility.

Philosophy of responsibility.

Physical Description:

xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Introduction: The Appeal of Levinas 1

1. The Ethics of the Trauma 15

From Violence to Anarchy 15

The Will and Persecution 22

The Pretences of the Subject 27

Separation and Investment 35

Radical Responsibility 42

The Other Other 48

The Society of the Human Face 57

The Law Inviolate 70

The Reduction of Morality 77

2. The Effort of Being 88

Phenomenology and Ipseity 88

Husserl: The Primacy of "Theory" 88

Heidegger: Existential Solipsism 98

Evasion and the Absolute 107

The Tragedy of Being 119

Time and Salvation 132

Being as Menace 132

The Absence Thus First 140

3. Subjectivity and Infinity 145

The Ontology of the Pardon 145

The Critique of Line and Light 159

Solitude and Revelation 171

Innocence and Astonishment 172

Love of Life 182

Enjoyment and Its Vicissitudes 194

The Movement of Transcendence 202

4. Ethics Within the Limits of Religion Alone 213

The Secret of Being 213

The Invisible, the Irrecoverable, and the Immemorial 223

Enigma Dei 234

The Seed of Folly 246

The Truth that Suffers 253

Phenomenology of Moral Conscience 265

The Ethics of Appealability 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-348) and index.

ISBN:

0820703117

OCLC:

41592917