For you alone : emmanuel levinas and the answerable life / Terry A. Veling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veling, Terry A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

xxii, 186 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2014]

Summary:

The Works of Emmanuel Levinas, A Survivor of the Nazi Horror, are striking in the constancy of their thought and the strength of their appeal. We are not condemned to evil and hatred; rather, we are called to be-for-each-other. For You Alone explores the relational and religious quality of Levinas' work. Our lives are always twofold rather than "one and the same." A relational life is dependent on encounters that are revelatory. Revelation means that life is no mere sameness but is tied to the revelation of the other, to you. Here is transcendence par excellence. Here is what the name of God signifies, the relational and ethical bond that takes us outside ourselves toward the other in our midst. What could be more natural, more human, or more divine than to speak of the relational quality of life? An answerable life means that we are asked after, called, required. "Here I am under your gaze," Levinas writes, "obliged to you, your servant. In the name of God" Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: "Jerusalem Writings" 1

Part 1 For You Alone

2 Indifference: Nobody Asks after You 19

3 Under Your Gaze 31

4 For You Alone: The Miracle of Exteriority 48

5 Sociality: More than One, Every One 67

Part 2 The Talmudic Ocean

6 The Talmudic Ocean 89

7 "We Will Do and We Will Hear" 124

8 "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself" 142

9 Suffering for Nothing or Suffering for You 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.

ISBN:

1610977173

OCLC:

878502377

Publisher Number:

99959309110