Intrigues : from being to the other / Gabriel Riera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riera, Gabriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Other (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through close readings of texts by Heidegger, Levinas and Blanchot, Gabriel Riera's 'Intrigues' examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality and power.

Contents:

The passion of time : au moment voulu (Nietzsche-Heidegger-Blanchot)

Dwelling : between poiêsis and techne

The enigma of manifestation (figuration in Heidegger)

Plot and intrigue : from being's other to the "otherwise than being" (language, ethics, poetry in Levinas)

Art's inhumanity : "reality and its shadow"

"The writing of the outside" (the "potentialities of literary language" in Otherwise than being)

The unerasable difference : Levinas in Blanchot.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3531-9

0-8232-4802-X

0-8232-2673-5

1-4294-7911-6

OCLC:

290490829