The Cambridge companion to Lévinas / edited by Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Critchley, Simon, 1960-

Bernasconi, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

xxx, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

A convenient and accessible guide to Levinas which emphasises the interdisciplinary significance of his work.

Contents:

Introduction / Simon Critchley

Levinas and Judaism / Hilary Putnam

Levinas and the face of the other / Bernhard Waldenfels

Levinas's critique of Husserl / Rudolf Bernet

Levinas and the Talmud / Catherine Chalier

Levinas and language / John Llewelyn

Levinas, feminism and the feminine / Stella Sandford

Sincerity and the end of theodicy : three remarks on Levinas and Kant / Paul Davies

Language and alterity in the thought of Levinas / Edith Wyschogrod

The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas's writings / Gerald L. Bruns

What is the question to which 'substitution' is the answer? / Robert Bernasconi

Evil and the temptation of theodicy / Richard J. Bernstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521662060

0521665655

OCLC:

49785889