Michael L. Morgan (Indiana University)

The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introductory overview of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth century. Focusing on Levinas' central principle that human existence is ethically grounded in our face-to-face relationships, Morgan explores the religious, cultural and political implications of this insight for modern Western culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780521141062
• ISBN-10: 0521141060
• Artikelnr.: 32803401

Autorenporträt

Michael Morgan works an office job downtown, is a member of a social committee and loves to cook. A simple man with big dreams.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Responding to atrocity in the twentieth century
2. How to read Levinas: normativity and transcendental philosophy
3. The ethical content of the face-to-face
4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday
5. Subjectivity and the self: passivity and freedom
6. God, philosophy, and the ground of the ethical
7. Time, history, and messianism
8. Greek and Hebrew
Conclusions, puzzles, problems
Annotated reading list and bibliography.