Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple—and accurate—oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.
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Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.
Introduction John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson Part I. Immanence and Transcendence 1. Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of "First" Philosophy Ann Murphy 2. Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence Philip J. Maloney 3. Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History Eric S. Nelson Part II. Temporalities 4. The Sincerity of the Saying Didier Franck, Translated by Robert Vallier 5. Time's Disquiet and Unrest: the Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas Emilia Angelova 6. Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger's Sein und Zeit Simon Critchley Part III. Subjectivities 7. Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology? Françoise Dastur 8. Useless Sacrifice Robert Bernasconi 9. The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger François Raffoul Part IV. Other Others 10. Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger Peter E. Gordon 11. Which Other, Whose Alterity? The Human after Humanism Krzysztof Ziarek 12. Elsewhere of Home John E. Drabinski List of Contributors Index
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"The political background to the debate between Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas has often distorted the philosophical dispute … Fortunately, this volume approaches the debate with a clear view of the philosophical issue. It avoids polemically misconstruing Heidegger's thought without making light of Levinas's modification of it." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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ISBN
9781438452586
Publisert
2015-07-02
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
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227 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
276

Biographical note

John E. Drabinski is Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of several books, including Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas, also published by SUNY Press. Eric S. Nelson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the coeditor (with François Raffoul) of Rethinking Facticity, also published by SUNY Press.