Ethics, exegesis, and philosophy : interpretation after Levinas / Richard A. Cohen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Richard A., 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ethics, Exegesis & Philosophy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.

Contents:

Introduction. Philosophy as ethical exegesis

pt. I. Exceeding phenomenology. 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age. 2. Science, phenomenology, intuition, and philosophy. 3. Good work of Edmund Husserl. 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger

pt. II. Good and evil. 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus. 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy. 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis. 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil. 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12275-9

1-280-43042-7

0-511-17372-5

0-511-04144-6

0-511-15290-6

0-511-32507-X

0-511-48823-8

0-511-04762-2

OCLC:

559155689