The Oxford Handbook of Levinas

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-045593-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 880 Seiten, Format (B × H): 249 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 1633 g

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes--the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others--speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida. And there are essays on how his thinking has been appropriated in moral and political thought, psychology, film criticism, and more, and on the relation between his thinking and religious themes and traditions. Finally, several essays deal primarily with how readers have criticized him and found him wanting. The volume exposes and explores both the depth of Levinas's philosophical work and the range of applications to which it has been put, with special attention to clarifying why his interests in the human condition, the crisis of civilization, the centrality and character of ethics and morality, and the very meaning of human experience should be of interest to the widest range of readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Michael L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contributors

- Introduction: Reading Levinas Today

- Michael L. Morgan

- Part I: Life, Background, and Influences

- 1. Levinas's Prison Notebooks

- Sarah Hammerschlag

- 2. Levinas and the Holocaust

- Robert Eaglestone

- 3. Levinas, Blanchot, and Art

- Kevin Hart

- 4. Levinas and Husserl

- Bettina Bergo

- 5. Levinas and Heidegger: The Elemental Confrontation

- Michael Fagenblat

- 6. Levinas and Derrida

- Edward Baring

- 7. Levinas Reading the Ancients

- Tanja Staehler

- 8. Levinas and Early Modern Philosophy

- Inga Römer

- 9. Levinas and German Idealism: Fichte and Hegel

- Martin Shuster

- Part II: Main Philosophical Themes

- 10. Levinas's Philosophy of Transcendence

- Peter J. Giannopoulos

- 11. Levinas and the Face of the Other

- Diane Perpich

- 12. “Subjectivity Must Be Defended”: Substitution, Entanglement, and the Prehistory of the Me in Levinas Robert Bernasconi

- 13. Levinas, Politics, and the Third Party

- J. Aaron Simmons

- 14. Levinas, Darwall, and Løgstrup on Second-Personal Ethics: Command or Responsibility?

- Robert Stern

- 15. Levinas on God and the Trace of the Other

- Michael L. Morgan

- 16. Levinas on Temporality and the Other

- James R. Mensch

- 17. Levinas's Accounts of Messianism

- Martin Kavka

- Part III: Religion and the Religious Dimension

- 18. Levinas and the Bible

- Eli Schonfeld

- 19. Theological Terms in the Philosophy of Levinas

- Jeffrey Bloechl

- 20. Levinas and Christianity

- Jeffrey Hanson

- 21. Levinas as a Reader of Jewish Texts: The Talmudic Commentaries

- Ethan Kleinberg

- 22. Levinas's Jewish Writings

- Oona Eisenstadt

- 23. Levinas's Ethics, Politics, and Zionism

- Annabel Herzog

- Part IV: Ethics Beyond Philosophy

- 24. Levinas and Education

- Claire Elise Katz

- 25. Levinas and Film

- Colin Davis

- 26. Levinas, Literature, and Philosophy

- Seán Hand

- 27. The Question of Food and Philosophy in Levinas

- Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

- 28. Levinas and the Ethics of War and Peace

- Joshua Shaw

- 29. Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: An Ethical Metaphysics of Reasons

- Kevin Houser

- 30. Levinas and the Law of Torts

- William H. Smith

- 31. Levinas and the Critical Philosophy of Race

- Kris Sealey

- 32. Levinas on Psychology, Identity, and Caring for Others

- David M. Goodman and Eric R. Severson

- Part V: Critical Assessments of Levinas

- 33. Levinas on Nature and Naturalism

- Fiona Ellis

- 34. Levinas's Humanism and Anthropocentrism

- Peter Atterton

- 35. Levinas, Feminism, and Temporality

- Cynthia Coe

- 36. Levinas on the Problem of Language: Expressing the Inexpressible

- William Large

- 37. Levinas on Ecology and Nature

- David Boothroyd

- 38. Levinas, Philosophy, and Biography

- Robert Plant

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1975. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is an Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University and has taught at Northwestern, Yale, Stanford, Toronto, and Princeton. He is the author or editor of twenty books. His most recent book, Levinas's Ethical Politics, was published in May 2016.