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Author Wall, Thomas Carl, 1954-

Title Radical passivity : Lévinas, Blanchot, and Agamben / Thomas Carl Wall ; with a foreword by William Flesch
Published New York : State University of New York Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 192 pages)
Contents Passivity -- The Language of Poetry -- 1. The Allegory of Being -- Image -- Duality -- The Obscure Temporality of the Artwork -- The Space of Art -- The Profane -- 2. Levinas's Ethics -- An Ambiguous Rapport -- No One Other -- The Self -- Impasse -- Ethique -- Death -- Levinas and Heidegger -- 3. Blanchot, L'arret de mort, and the Image of Literature -- Writing -- Proximity -- En deca du temps -- Image, Ipseity, and Art -- 4. Agamben and the Political Neuter -- Anonymity and Belonging -- Whatever! -- Community -- Object = x -- Politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lévinas, Emmanuel
Blanchot, Maurice
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
SUBJECT Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- fast
Blanchot, Maurice fast
Lévinas, Emmanuel fast
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585092257
9780585092256