| Description |
xix, 566 pages |
| Series |
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; 52 |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy ; 52
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: [FMCT]Contents[/FMCT] -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: God: Desiring the Infinite -- 1 Intending Transcendence: Desiring God -- 2 Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Levinas -- 3 Postmodern Saintliness: Ecstasy and Altruism -- 4 Levinas and Hillel¿s Questions -- 5 Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument: A Lacanian Analysis -- Part II: Training Bodies: Pedagogies of Pain -- 6 Asceticism as Willed Corporeality: Body in Foucault and Heidegger -- 7 Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to Hyperreality -- 8 The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloïse: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics -- 9 From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce -- Cunningham -- Part III: Bodies: Subject or Code? -- 10 Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter -- 11 Levinas¿s Other and the Culture of the Copy -- 12 From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for Immortality -- Part IV: Nihilation and the Ethics of Alterity -- 13 The Semantic Spaces of Terror: A Theological Response -- 14 The Warring Logics of Genocide -- 15 Incursions of Alterity: The Double Bind of Obligation -- 16 Memory, History, Revelation: Writing the Dead Other -- 17 Exemplary Individuals: Toward a Phenomenological Ethics -- Part V: Conversations -- 18 Interview with Emmanuel Levinas -- 19 Postmodernism and the Desire for God: An E-mail Exchange -- Edith Wyschogrod and John D. Caputo -- 20 Heterological History: A Conversation -- Edith Wyschogrod and Carl Raschke -- Part VI: The Art in Ethics -- 21 Between Swooners and Cynics: The Art of Envisioning God -- 22 Facts, Fictions, Ficciones: Truth in the Study of Religion -- 23 Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg¿s Opera Moses and -- Aron -- 24 Killing the Cat: Sacrifice and Beauty in Genet and Mishima -- 25 The Art in Ethics: Aesthetics, Objectivity, and Alterity in the Philosophy of Levinas -- Part VII: Comparing Philosophies -- 26 The Moral Self: Levinas and Hermann Cohen -- 27 Autochthony and Welcome: Discourses of Exile in Derrida and Levinas -- 28 Time and Nonbeing in Derrida and Quine -- 29 The Logic of Artifactual Existents: John Dewey and Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 30 The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Surrogates in a Jain Theory of Knowledge -- 31 Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dign[mac]aga -- 32 Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears : Anthropology in the Philosophies of Heidegger and -- Levinas -- Notes -- Index |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Theology.
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| LC no. |
2006005903 |
| ISBN |
0823226069 (hbk.) |
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0823226077 (paperback) |
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9780823226061 (hbk.) |
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