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Nietzsche and Levinas : "after the death of a certain God" / edited by Jill Stauffer, Bettina Bergo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Insurrections.
- Insurrections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Levinas, Emmanuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the ""death of God."" While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer possibility of ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exists independently of calculative reason& mdash;for Nietzsche, goodness arises in a
- Contents:
- The malice in good deeds / Alphonso Lingis
- The imperfect : Levinas, Nietzsche, and the autonomous subject / Jill Stauffer
- Nietzsche and Levinas : the impossible relation / Jean-Michel Longneaux
- Ethical ambivalence / Judith Butler
- Thus spoke Zarathustra, thus listened the rabbis : philosophy, education, and the cycle of enlightenment / Claire Elise Katz
- The flesh made word; or, the two origins / Bettina Bergo
- Nietzsche, Levinas, and the meaning of responsibility / Rosalyn Diprose
- Beginning's abyss : on solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas / John Drabinski
- Beyond suffering I have no alibi / David Boothroyd
- Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the body / Richard A. Cohen
- Suffering redeemable and irredeemable / John Llewelyn
- Levinas's Gaia scienza / Aicha Liviana Messina
- Levinas : another ascetic priest? / Silvia Benso
- Apocalypse, eschatology, and the death of God / Brian Schroeder.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613629647
- 9781280599804
- 1280599804
- 9780231518536
- 0231518536
- OCLC:
- 826476138
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