Emmanuel Levinas : a philosophy of exile / Abi Doukhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doukhan, Abi.

Series:

Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Other (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Overthe last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition haveincreasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn toimmanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept oftranscendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms:an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work ofDeleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion ofimmanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by whichto rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However,she argues that contrary

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Rethinking Materialism and Transcendence; Beyond transcendence via Kant and Hegel; Towards an immanent transcendence; An outline; Chapter 1 Deleuze and Spinoza: The Metaphysics of Pure Immanence; The critique of transcendence; Constructing pure immanence; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Becoming-Other; Life, matter and materialization; A politics of life: Re-affirming immanence; Life: An unbearable weight; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental; Feminism, transcendence and the transcendental

The metaphysics of sexuate natureNature: The two rhythms of sexual difference; Becoming divine: Creating a culture of sexuate difference; Sexual difference and transcendence: Some problems; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Adorno, Negative Dialectics and Materialism; The spell of immanence: On the disenchantment of the world; On the primacy of the object; The object and the question of realism; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Towards a Theological Materialism; The quasi-transcendental logic of immanent materialisms; Theological materialism: Some notes; Concluding remarks; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1

Chapter 2Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-158) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781441150868

1441150862

9781283735889

1283735881

9781441162908

1441162909

OCLC:

818116950