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The face of the other and the trace of God : essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas / edited by Jeffrey Bloechl.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives in continental philosophy ; v. 10.
- Perspectives in continental philosophy ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lévinas, Emmanuel.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 315 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two parts: relations with the other, and the questions of God.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EDITOR'S NOTE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Body of Difference
- 2. The Phenomenology of Eros: A Reading of Totality and Infinity, IV.B
- 3. The Encounter with the Stranger: Two Interpretations of the Vulnerability of the Skin
- 4. The Alterity of the Stranger and the Experience of the Alien
- 5. Sensibility, Trauma, and the Trace: Levinas from Phenomenology to the Immemorial
- 6. Ethics as First Philosophy and Religion
- II. The Question of God
- 7. The Bible Gives to Thought: Levinas on the Possibility and Proper Nature of Biblical Thinking
- 8. The Significance of Levinas's Work for Christian Thought
- 9. Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence in Levinas and Kierkegaard
- 10. The Voice without Name: Homage to Levinas
- 11. The Price of Being Dispossessed: Levinas's God and Freud's Trauma
- 12. Adieu—sans Dieu: Derrida and Levinas
- CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612698552
- 9780823241644
- 0823241645
- 9781282698550
- 1282698559
- 9780823219674
- 0823219674
- 9780823238415
- 0823238415
- 9780585416618
- 0585416613
- OCLC:
- 1227051800
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