Outside the Subject

by Levinas, Emmanuel; Smith, Michael B.

• ISBN13: 9780804721974
• ISBN10: 0804721971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

One of the most influential philosophers of our day has selected 16 previously uncollected pieces that are unified by Levinas's project of revising the phenomenological description of the world in light of our experience of other persons.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Bibliographical Information
Translator's Introduction
Preface	p. 1
Martin Buber's Thought and Contemporary Judaism	p. 4
Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel and Philosophy	p. 20
Apropos of Buber: Some Notes	p. 40
Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker	p. 49
Jean Wahl: Neither Having nor Being	p. 67
Vladimir Jankelevitch	p. 84
The Meaning of Meaning	p. 90
On Intersubjectivity: Notes on Merleau-Ponty	p. 96
In Memory of Alphonse de Waelhens	p. 104
The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Other	p. 116
The Strings and the Wood: On the Jewish Reading of the Bible	p. 126
Everyday Language and Rhetoric Without Eloquence	p. 135
The Transcendence of Words: On Michel Leiris's Biffures	p. 144
Outside the Subject	p. 151
Notes	p. 159
Index	p. 169
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