Levinas: An Introduction.(Review)

The Review of Metaphysics;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Davis, Colin. Levinas: An Introduction. Notre Dame: University...Davis, are frequently left mystified by Levinas's writing (p. 143). In such a climate...obligatory, to develop a clear exposition of Levinas's project, which does not sacrifice philosophical...

Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to...

symploke;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Bernasconi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. xxx...editors better equipped to edit this book on Levinas in the well-known Cambridge Companion...some of the most attentive readers of Levinas, at once appreciative and rigorously critical...

Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature

Comparative Literature;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ALTERED READING: LEviNAs AND LITERATuRE. By Jill Robbins. Chicago...Chicago Press, 1999. xxiv, 185 p. Reading Levinas is a notoriously arduous task, whether...confessional" writings, the contours of which Levinas constantly blurs. After her excellent...

Levinas and Biblical Studies.(Book Review)

Shofar;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Levinas and Biblical Studies, edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Gary...Literature, 2003. Semeia Studies number 43. 214 pp. $29.95. Levinas has been an important philosophical figure in France since...contested issue. The current collection of essays, including Levinas's On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures ...

Ethics as First Philosophy: Levinas Reads Spinoza.(Critical Essay)

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......differences between the philosophies of Levinas and Spinoza go all the way down and...Marrano of Reason, one can say that Levinas is the Marrano of Ethics. (1) Their...differences are in no way attenuated by Levinas's critical remarks about Spinoza...

The hither-side of the living-present in Levinas and Husserl

Philosophy Today;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......problematic directs even the earliest Levinasian studies is well-known. However, despite...precise matters of the philosophical debt Levinas owes this tendency in the phenomenological...requires that the reader seek the debt in Levinas's implicit as well as explicit criticisms...

The responsive "I": Levinas's derivative argument.(Review Essay)

Argumentation and Advocacy;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Emmanuel Levinas, considered the premier voice of ethics...life through self-generated volition. Levinas begins by countering the assumption about...a responsive derivative construction. Levinas's ethics begins with answering the call...

Ethics of care revisited: Gilligan and Levinas

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......limitations of this trinity, and Emmanuel Levinas obviously comes to mind as a figure to...or the thematic. Needless to say, from Levinas's vantage point the language of these...path of violence toward the other for Levinas, and thematic approaches, which often...

Buber or Levinas? A response to Maurice Friedman

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Friedman has written defending Buber against Levinas (Philosophy Today, spring 2001), or trying...least when it comes to moral philosophy Levinas has not rendered Buber aufgehoben. Many...taken. Certainly, for instance, we look to Levinas in vain for discussion of some relation...

ETHICS, EROS, OR CARITAS?: LEVINAS AND MARION ON INDIVIDUATION OF THE...

Philosophy Today;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......without saying that we owe it to Emmanuel Levinas to have ingeniously reconfigured phenomenology...Jean-Luc Marion acknowledges Emmanuel Levinas's tremendous influence upon his work. Generally, Marion's debt to Levinas quite literally "goes without saying...

Chalier, Catherine. What Ought I to Do? Morality in Kant and Levinas.(Book...

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......What Ought I to Do? Morality in Kant and Levinas. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Ithaca...models for such an approach are Kant and Levinas, philosophers of the subject united by...Pour une morale audeld du savoir: Kant et Levinas). Once these similarities are delineated...

From time to the flesh: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...For both Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, the question of temporality is inseparably...disparate thinkers. This is not to say, however, that Levinas and Merleau-Ponty were here in agreement, Levinas, for his part, invokes a radically original account of...

INDIVIDUATION IN LEVINAS AND HEIDEGGER: THE ONE AND THE INCOMPLETENESS OF...

Philosophy Today;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......sustained encounter between Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger. In it, broadly speaking, Derrida criticises Levinas for attempting to access the other as...This understanding of otherness forces Levinas to understand Heidegger's death as owned...

ABRAHAM AND THE FLANEUR: LEVINAS, BENJAMIN, AND URBAN LIFE

Philosophy Today;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......standing erect at its centre.1 As I read Levinas's Talmudic reading "Judaism and Revolution...contexts must simply be a manifestation of Levinas's deep desire to stay close to the Talmudic...surprise, I wondered what it was that Levinas was really getting at here and more to...

Traumatic response: Levinas's legacy

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Between November 1975 and May 1976, Emmanuel Levinas presented a lecture course under the title...constitutes the last regular course that Levinas taught at the Sorbonne.2 The lectures...perspective on both these works for which Levinas is best known, along with the intervening...