| Description |
vii, 361 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis -- Pt. I. Exceeding phenomenology -- 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age -- 2. Science, phenomenology, intuition, and philosophy -- 3. The good work of Edmund Husserl -- 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger -- Pt. II. Good and evil -- 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus -- 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy -- 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis -- 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil -- 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem -- 10. In-conclusion |
| Summary |
"The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) have grown powerfully in recent years. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his postmodern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought." |
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"Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas's work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas's reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms "ethical exegesis.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics.
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Lévinas, Emmanuel.
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Ethics.
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Judaism in philosophy
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| LC no. |
00045501 |
| ISBN |
0521801583 |
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