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Ethics as first philosophy

The significance of Emmanuel Levinas for philosophy, literature, and religion

herausgegeben vonAdriaan Peperzak

Abstrakt

Compiled from the papers delivered at an international conference attended by some of the worlds leading Levinas scholars, this volume represents a very comprehensive collection on the many facets of Levinas studies.

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Characterizations

pp.3-38
The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the Hebraic tradition Catherine Chalier

pp.3-12
Height and nearness

Jewish dimensions of radical ethics

Robert Gibbs

pp.13-24
A people's witness beyond politics Charles E Scott

pp.25-38
Ethics as first philosophy

pp.39-106
Response and responsibility in Levinas Bernhard Waldenfels(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

pp.39-52
Reply to Bernhard Waldenfels

"Response and responsibility in Levinas"

Hugh Miller

pp.53-58
Levinas's ethics

A normative perspective without metaethical constraints

Patricia Werhane

pp.59-68
The notion of persecution in Levinas's otherwise than being or beyond essence Elisabeth Weber

pp.69-76
"only the persecuted..."

Language of the oppressor, language of the oppressed

Robert Bernasconi

pp.77-86
The riddle of the pre-original Fabio Ciaramelli

pp.87-94
On resorting to an ethical language Paul Davies

pp.95-106
Psychism

pp.107ff
Nonintentional affectivity, affective intentionality, and the ethical in Levinas's philosophy Andrew Tallon

pp.107-122
The irresponsible subject William Richardson

pp.123ff

Publication details

Publisher: Routledge

Ort: London-New York

Year: 1995

Seiten: 251, xiii

ISBN (hardback): 9780415911429

ISBN (digital): 9780415911436

Referenz:

Peperzak Adriaan (1995) Ethics as first philosophy: The significance of Emmanuel Levinas for philosophy, literature, and religion. London-New York, Routledge.