Levinas and the ancients / edited by Brian Schroeder and Silvia Benso ; with a foreword by Adriaan Peperzak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pushead.

Benso, Silvia.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient--Influence.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in relation to ancient thought

Contents:

The breathing of the air : presocratic echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso

The eternal and the new : Socrates and Levinas on desire and need / Deborah Achtenberg

Levinas questioning Plato on eros and maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez

Getting under the skin : Platonic myths in Levinas / Tanja Stahler

Lending assistance always to itself : Levinas' infinite conversation with Platonic dialogue / Michael Naas

Ethics as first philosophy : Aristotelian reflections on intelligence, sensibility, and transcendence / Claudia Baracchi

Aristotle and Levinas on war and peace : the one against the other / Catriona Hanley

Stoic ethics and totality in light of Levinasian alterity / Julie Piering

Of a non-saying that says nothing : Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche

The time and language of messianism : Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo

Proximity in distance : Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi

A trace of the eternal return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder

Ethics and predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J.J. Altizer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06623-4

9786612066238

0-253-00073-4

OCLC:

476241936