Nietzsche and Levinas

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14405-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification, Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer possibility of ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exists independently of calculative reason& mdash;for Nietzsche, goodness arises in a creative act moving beyond reaction and ressentiment; Levinas argues that goodness occurs in a spontaneous response to another person. In a world at once without God and haunted by multiple divinities, Nietzsche and Levinas reject transcendental foundations for politics and work toward an alternative vision encompassing a positive sense of creation, a complex fraternity or friendship, and rival notions of responsibility.Stauffer and Bergo group arguments around the following debates, which are far from settled: What is the reevaluation of ethics (and life) that Nietzsche and Levinas propose, and what does this imply for politics and sociality? What is a human subject& mdash;and what are substance, permanence, causality, and identity, whether social or ethical& mdash;in the wake of the demise of God as the highest being and the foundation of what is stable in existence? Finally, how can a "God" still inhabit philosophy, and what sort of name is this in the thought of Nietzsche and Levinas?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stauffer, Jill

Bergo, Bettina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Texts by Nietzsche and LevinasIntroduction Bettina Bergo and Jill StaufferPart I. Revaluing Ethics: Time, Teaching, and the Ambiguity of Forces 1. The Malice in Good Deeds, by Alphonso Lingis2. The Imperfect: Levinas, Nietzsche, and the Autonomous Subjec, by Jill Stauffer3. Nietzsche and Levinas: The Impossible Relation, by John-Michel Longneaux4. Ethical Ambivalence, by Judith Butler5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Thus Listened the Rabbis: Philosophy, Education, and the Cycle of Enlightenment, by Claire Elise KatzPart II. The Subject: Sensing, Suffering, and Responding 6. The Flesh Made Word; Or The Two Origins, by Bettina Bergo7. Nietzsche, Levinas, and the Meaning of Responsibility, by Rosalyn Diprose8. Beginning's Abyss: On Solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas, by John Drabinski9. Beyond Suffering I Have No Alibi, by David Boothroyd10. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the Body, by Richard A. CohenPart III. Heteronomy and Ubiquity: God in Philosophy 11. Suffering Redeemable and Irredeemable, by John Llewelyn12. Levinas's Gaia Scienza, by Aïcha Liviana Messina13. Levinas: Another Ascetic Priest?, by Silvia Benso14. Apocalypse, Eschatology, and the Death of God, by Brian SchroederBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jill Stauffer is an assistant professor of philosophy at John Jay College, City University of New York.

Bettina Bergo is associate professor of philosophy at the Université de Montréal. The author of Levinas Between Ethics and Politics, she has translated Levinas's Of God Who Comes to Mind and other works by the philosopher, and coedited Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-enclosure: Deconstruction of Christianity. She is the coeditor of Trauma: Reflection on Experience and Its Other.