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9780485115666

The Metaphysics of Love Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

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  • ISBN13:

    9780485115666

  • ISBN10:

    0485115662

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-08-03
  • Publisher: Athlone Pr

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Summary

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has concealed the basis and the details of his philosophical project.The Metaphysics of Love traces Levinas's philosophy through a detailed discussion of the neglected Levinasian themes of eros, sexual difference, the "feminine" maternity, fecundity, paternity and fraternity, demonstrating the ultimate impossibility of his metaphysical enterprise. Arguing against this attempt to deploy phenomenology in the service of a metaphysics of transcendence, Sandford's book is, at the same time, a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of his philosophy for feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(6)
The Metaphysics of Transcendence
7(26)
Feminine/Female/Femme: Sexual Difference and the Human
33(31)
Paternal Fecundity: Sons and Brothers
64(18)
A Maternal Alternative? Levinas and Plato on Love
82(28)
Affectivity and Meaning: the Intelligibility of Transcendence
110(19)
Coda: Metaphysics and Feminism 129(12)
Notes 141(26)
Bibliography 167(10)
Index 177

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