Levinas and Kierkegaard in dialogue / Merold Westphal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westphal, Merold.

Series:

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few philosophers have devoted more than passing attention to similarities between the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish Christian, and Emmanuel Levinas, a French Jew. Here, one of philosophy of religion's most distinctive voices offers a sustained comparison. Focusing on questions surrounding otherness, transcendence, postmodernity, and the nature of religious thought, Merold Westphal draws readers into a dialogue between the two thinkers. Westphal's masterful command of both philosophies shows that each can learn from the other. Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue is an insightful and accessible contribution to philosophical considerations of ethics and religion.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

acknowledgments

list of abbreviations

Introduction

PART 1. REVELATION

1. Revelation as Immediacy

2. Revelation as Enigma and Paradox

PART 2. GOD

3. Teleological Suspensions

4. Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence

PART 3. HETERONOMY

5. The Trauma of Transcendence as Heteronomous Intersubjectivity

6. Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self

PART 4. REVERSAL

7. The ''Logic'' of Solidarity

8. Inverted Intentionality: Being Addressed

notes

index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-178) and index.

ISBN:

9786612263194

9781282263192

1282263196

9780253003140

0253003148

OCLC:

438873417