Addressing Levinas

by NELSON, ERIC SEAN; Kapust, Antje; Still, Kent

• ISBN13: 9780810120488
• ISBN10: 0810120488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-02
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

An exploration of Emmanuel Levinas' relationship to a wide range of intellectual traditions, including theology, philosophy of culture, Jewish thought, phenomenology, and the history of philosophy. It also engages Levinas' contribution to ethics, politics, law, justice, psychoanalysis and epistemology, among other themes.

Author Biography

Eric Sean Nelson is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Antje Kapust is a Privat Dozent at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.

Kent Still is currently finishing his dissertation at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
List of Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas	xvii
Introduction: Addressing Levinas	xix
Strange Fire	3	(14)
Jill Robbins
The Responsibility of Irresponsibility: Taking (Yet) Another Look at the Akedah	17	(17)
Claire Elise Katz
Beyond Outrage: The Delirium of Responsibility in Levinas's Scene of Persecution	34	(18)
James Hatley
The Strangeness in the Ethical Discourse of Emmanuel Levinas	52	(9)
Wayne Froman
Levinas: A Transdisciplinary Thinker	61	(14)
Michael B. Smith
``Between Betrayal and Betrayal'': Epistemology and Ethics in Derrida's Debt to Levinas	75	(11)
Margret Grebowicz
Levinas on the Saying and the Said	86	(12)
Bernhard Waldenfels
Bare Humanity	98	(11)
Alphonso Lingis
The Other Side of Intentionality	109	(10)
Leslie MacAvoy
Face and Revelation: Levinas on Teaching as Way-Faring	119	(19)
Anthony J. Steinbock
Being and the Other: Ethics and Ontology in Levinas and Heidegger	138	(14)
Francois Raffoul
Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends	152	(18)
David Wood
Levinas and the Struggle for Existence	170	(15)
Robert Bernasconi
Wealth and Justice in a U-topian Context	185	(14)
John Drabinski
Persecution: The Self at the Heart of Metaphysics	199	(37)
David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Returning Violence	236	(21)
Antje Kapust
Levinasian Responsibility and Freudian Analysis: Is the Unthinkable an Un-Conscious?	257	(39)
Bettina Bergo
Sensible Subjects: Levinas and Irigaray on Incarnation and Ethics	296	(14)
Diane Perpich
Conditions: The Politics of Ontology and the Temporality of the Feminine	310	(29)
Tina Chanter
Contributors	339