The problem with Levinas / Simon Critchley ; edited by Alexis Dianda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Critchley, Simon, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Dianda, Alexis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Criticism and interpretation.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 156 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon Critchley's aim in this book is to provide a less familiar, more troubling, and (hopefully) truer account of Levinas's work. A new dramatic method for reading Levinas is proposed, where the fundamental problem of his work is seen as the attempt to escape from the tragedyof Heidegger's philosophy and the way in which that philosophy shaped political events in the last century.

Contents:

Lecture One; Hegel or Levinas?; Philosophy and Sexual Difference; Why Philosophy? The Problem of Method; Against Aristotle: The Meaning of Drama; Moral Ambiguity; The Seduction of Facticity; At War with Oneself; Heideggerś Comedy Turns Tragic; The Theology of Clothes; Beyond the Tragedy of Finitude; A Happy Ending; Lecture Two; Hitlerism Against Liberalism; Elemental Evil; The Marxist Critique of Liberalism and a Critique of Marxism; Embodiment and Racism; Why Europe is So Great

The Bio-Politics of Fascism; French Philosophy is Not Pornography; Escape: The Ur-Form of Levinas' Thought; Being Riveted and the Need for Excendence; Desire and Malaise; Pleasure and Shame; I Love Phaedra; The Impotence of Being; Is There a Way Out of Barbarism?; Levinas in Captivity; Lecture Three; The Break-Up of Fate; How to Build an Immonument; Ethics Back to Front; Levinas' Anarchism; Waving Goodbye to the Principle of Non-Contradiction; The Weak Syntax of Scepticism; Escaping Evasion through that which Cannot be Evaded; The Structure of Otherwise than Being

In Itself One: This is Not a Metaphor; Four Problems: Prescription, Agency, Masochism, and Sublimation; Love Song; Lecture Four; Levinas' Marvellous Family; The Problem of Eros; Into the Abyss, the Inexistent; Why You Should All Have Children; Pluralism, the Break with the One; The Denouement of Levinas' Comedy; Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Messianism: The End of Totality and Infinity; Occupy Philosophy! Irigaray's Strategy; Shakespeare's Misogyny; The Song of Songs, Finally; Against Scholem, For Hysterical Extravagance; Mysticism in the Kitchen; All Mouth; Decreation, Annihilation

The Enjoyment of God; Sovereign Love; Afterword.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical refererences and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-105896-3

0-19-182210-8

0-19-105895-5

OCLC:

913086368