| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780415107303 | | Publisher: Routledge | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 36305319 | | Item#: BMVLTK | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.75H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 256 |
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| | | From the relative obscurity in which Levinas's work languished until very recently, Emmanuel Levinas must now be judged as one of the most influential figures in contemporary Continental philosophy. There is no better guide than John Lewelyn to lead one through the thickets of Levinas's prose. Bursting with questions, multiple references, cascading citations and multilingual puns and nuances, this book is the compelling record of intellectual obsession. Taking as its guiding thre
the theme of genealogy, the book gives a broadly chronological and impressively manageable presentation of the whole sweep of the Levinas's work. Balanced and finely grained, Llewelyn confronts questions of method, Heidegger, phenomenology, the theme of sensibility, religion, enjoyment, feminity, eros, justice and the political. The book reaches a stunning climax in a series of chapters that give a hestitant but tolerant discussion of the question of God in Levinas, the relation to Levinasian ethics to Nietzschean genealogy, and an extraordinary discussion of metaphor that leads into a wholly original analysis of Levinas's poetics and metaphorics. The book concludes with a sensitive reading of the autobiographical epigraphs to Levinas's "Otherwise than Being..." and a consideration of the Holocaust.
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"Emmanuel Levinas must now be judged to be one of the most influential figures in contemporary continental philosophy. I can think of no better guide than John Llewelyn to lead us through the thickets of Levinas's prose." - Simon Critchley(unknown)
"This is the most important full length study of Levinas in any language." - Rogert Berasconi (unknown)
John Llewelyn's book is a timely and exemplary study of Levinas's work. Following his philosophical works in roughly chronological order, Llewelyn shows how Levinas's argument - that metaphysics is anarchically ethical--departs from the tradition culminating with Hegel from the thinking of contemporaries like Husserl and Heidegger. He examines in detail the relationship between Nietzsche's scripture after the "death of God"--so central to post-structuralism and post-modernism - and looks at the significance of the interruption by Levinas's genealogy of ethics of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals. John Llewelyn argues convincingly that in this time of crisis in ethics, Levinas's work provides a valuable alternative way to understand ethics. He asks, how after Auschwitz, can we afford to leave Levinas unread? Written for students of continental philosophy and theology,as well as for readers pursuing more advanced research, this book finally brings the work of Levinas to a wider audience. |
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