To the Other

by Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor; Levinas, Emmanuel

• ISBN13: 9781557530233
• ISBN10: 1557530238
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

"... the best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century". -- American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
The One for the Other	1	(37)
Thought and Existence	1	(7)
Roots and Traditions	8	(4)
A Global Characterization of Levinas's Attitude toward Heidegger's Thought	12	(2)
Phenomenology	14	(5)
Otherness	19	(3)
The Other and I	22	(3)
The-One-for-the-Other	25	(1)
Equality and Asymmetry	26	(4)
Intersubjectivity and Society	30	(2)
Language and Thought	32	(1)
Time	33	(2)
God	35	(1)
Method	36	(2)
A Commentary on ``Philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite''	38	(35)
Autonomy and Heteronomy	39	(10)
The Primacy of the Same, or Narcissism	49	(6)
Narcissism and Western Thought	50	(2)
The Other As the Calling into Question of Freedom	52	(1)
Heideggerian Ontology As a Philosophy of the Same	53	(2)
The Idea of the Infinite	55	(6)
The Idea of the Infinite and the Face of the Other	61	(4)
The Idea of the Infinite As Desire	65	(3)
The Idea of the Infinite and Conscience	68	(5)
Text ``La philosophie et I'idee de I'Infini''	73	(15)
Autonomie et Heteronomie	73	(2)
Le primat du Meme ou le narcissisme	75	(5)
L'idee de l'Infini	80	(1)
L'idee de l'infini et le visage d'Autrui	81	(1)
L'idee de l'infini comme desir	82	(2)
L'idee de l'infini et la conscience morale	84	(4)
Text and Commentary ``philosophy and the Idea of the Infinite''	88	(32)
Autonomy and Heteronomy	88	(6)
Narcissism, or the Primacy of the Same	94	(11)
The Idea of the Infinite	105	(3)
The Idea of the Infinite and the Face of the Other	108	(4)
The Idea of the Infinite Is Desire	112	(3)
The Idea of the Infinite and Conscience	115	(5)
A Key to Totality and Infinity	120	(89)
The Preface	121	(9)
The Same and the Other	130	(17)
Interiority and Economy	147	(14)
The Face and Exteriority	161	(31)
Beyond the Face	192	(10)
Conclusions	202	(7)
Beyond Being	209	(26)
Select Bibliography	235	(8)
Index	243