Simon Critchley

The Problem with Levinas (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon Critchley's aim in this book is to provide a less familiar, more troubling, and (hopefully) truer account of Levinas's work. A new dramatic method for reading Levinas is proposed, where the fundamental problem of his work is seen as the attempt to escape from the tragedy of Heidegger's philosophy and the way in which that philosophy shaped political events in the last century. Extensive and careful attention is paid to Levinas' fascinating but often overlooked work from the 1930s, where the proximity to Heidegger becomes clearer. Levinas's problem is very simple: how to escape from the tragic fatality of being as described by Heidegger. Levinas's later work is a series of attempts to answer that problem through claims about ethical selfhood and a series of phenomenological experiences, especially erotic relations and the relation to the child. These claims are analyzed in the book through close textual readings. Critchley reveals the problem with Levinas's answer to his own philosophical question and suggests a number of criticisms, particular concerning the question of gender. In the final, speculative part of the book, another answer to Levinas's problem is explored through a reading of the Song of Songs and the lens of mystical love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191058950
• Artikelnr.: 43404447

Autorenporträt

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little ... Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, The Mattering of Matter, Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society (with Tom McCarthy), and Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (with Jamieson Webter). An experimental new work, Memory Theatre, and a book called Bowie were published in September 2014. He is moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * Abbreviations of Levinas' Works * Lecture One * Hegel or Levinas?
Philosophy and Sexual Difference
Why Philosophy? The Problem of Method
Against Aristotle: The Meaning of Drama
Moral Ambiguity
The Seduction of Facticity
At War with Oneself
Heidegger's Comedy Turns Tragic
The Theology of Clothes
Beyond the Tragedy of Finitude
A Happy Ending * Lecture Two * Hitlerism Against Liberalism
Elemental Evil
The Marxist Critique of Liberalism and a Critique of Marxism
Embodiment and Racism
Why Europe is So Great
The Bio
Politics of Fascism
French Philosophy is Not Pornography
Escape: The Ur
Form of Levinas' Thought
Being Riveted and the Need for Excendence
Desire and Malaise
Pleasure and Shame
I Love Phaedra
The Impotence of Being
Is There a Way Out of Barbarism?
Levinas in Captivity * Lecture Three * The Break
up of Fate
How to Build an Immonument
Ethics Back to Front
Levinas' Anarchism
Waving Goodbye to the Principle of Non
Contradiction
The Weak Syntax of Skepticism
Escaping Evasion Through That Which Cannot Be Evaded
The Structure of Otherwise than Being
In Itself One: This is Not a Metaphor
Four Problems: Prescription, Agency, Masochism, Sublimation
Love Song * Lecture Four * Levinas' Marvelous Family
The Problem of Eros
Into the Abyss, the Inexistent
Why You Should All Have Children
Pluralism, the Break with the One
The Denouement of Levinas' Comedy
Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Messianism: The End of Totality and Infinity
Occupy Philosophy! Irigaray's Strategy
Shakespeare's Misogyny
The Song of Songs, Finally
Against Scholem, For Hysterical Extravagance
Mysticism in the Kitchen
All Mouth
Decreation, Annihilation
The Enjoyment of God
Sovereign Love * Afterword * Bibliography