Conversations with Emmanuel Lévinas, 1983-1994 / Michaël de Saint Cheron ; translated by Gary D. Mole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint-Cheron, Michaël de.

Contributor:

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Standardized Title:

Entretiens avec Emmanuel Lévinas. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Interviews.

Philosophers--France--Interviews.

Philosophers.

France.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xix, 175 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction: Decades attuned to Lévinas's word

Part 1: Conversations with Emmanuel Lévinas: toward a philosophy of holiness. Inaugural meeting, May 9, 1983 ; Interviews, 1992, 1994

Part 2: From the phenomenology of the face to a philosophy of the breach. From the epiphany of the face to the idea of holiness ; Sartre and Levinas : is there a dialogue? ; Death and the other or the dialogue with Malraux ; Otherwise than thinking : a philosophy of the breach

Part 3: Forgiving and the unforgivable in the Talmud, based on Levinas's teaching. Yom Kippur, the day for forgiveness ; Our transgressions against our fellows ; The Shoah and the unforgivable.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820704289

0820704288

OCLC:

495996770