Between Levinas and Heidegger / edited by John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drabinski, John E., 1968- editor.

Nelson, Eric Sean, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Ontology.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple—and accurate—oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Revisiting the Question of levinas and Heidegger""; ""Epigraph""; ""Notes""; ""Part I: Immanence and Transcendence""; ""Chapter One: Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of “First� Philosophy ""; ""Ontological Imperialism""; ""Ethics as Critique ""; ""“As Close as Possible to Nonviolence� ""; ""Sources Cited""; ""Chapter Two: Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence ""; ""I""; ""II""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter Three: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History ""

""Introduction""""Reposing the Question of History ""; ""Another History""; ""History as Decision and Event ""; ""Historie and Geschichte ""; ""Understanding and Interpretation ""; ""Historically Mindful Reflection""; ""Endings and Beginnings ""; ""Notes""; ""Part II: Temporalities""; ""Chapter Four: The Sincerity of the Saying ""; ""System and Subject ""; ""“Here I Am�""; ""Testimony""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter Five: Time�s Disquiet and Unrest: The Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas ""; ""Levinas, or Against Death as Basis:The Absolute Absence of The Other Breaks Off ""

""Heidegger�s Relativization of Death:Thrownness as Possibility to be Repeated """"Notes""; ""Chapter Six: Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger�s Sein und Zeit ""; ""Notes""; ""Part III: Subjectivities""; ""Chapter Seven: Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology? ""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter Eight: Useless Sacrifice""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter Nine: The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger ""; ""Levinas�s Expropriation of Egological Responsibility ""; ""The Escape from Ontology ""; ""The Death of the Other as Origin of Responsibility ""

""Responsibility for the Other as Expropriation of the Subject""""Overcoming Egology?""; ""Heidegger and Originary Responsibility ""; ""Of a Nonsubjective Responsibility ""; ""The Otherness of Responsibility ""; ""Responsibility to a Secret ""; ""Notes""; ""Part IV: Other Others""; ""Chapter Ten: Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger ""; ""Belonging to Heidegger ""; ""Disruption and Deworlding: The Animal as the Other ""; ""Displaced Persons""; ""Levinas, or, The Persistence of Deworlding ""; ""Notes""

""Chapter Eleven: Which Other, Whose Alterity?: The Human after Humanism """"Notes""; ""Chapter Twelve: Elsewhere of Home ""; ""The Monolingual House of Being ""; ""Levinas, Home, Immanence""; ""Thresholds and Hybridities ""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438452593

1438452594

OCLC:

890311058