Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Responding to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century
- 2 How to Read Levinas: Normativity and Transcendental Philosophy
- 3 The Ethical Content of the Face-to-Face
- 4 Philosophy, Totality, and the Everyday
- 5 Subjectivity and the Self: Passivity and Freedom
- 6 God, Philosophy, and the Ground of the Ethical
- 7 Time, History, and Messianism
- 8 Greek and Hebrew: Religion, Ethics, and Judaism
- Conclusions, Puzzles, Problems
- Recommended Readings
- Index
- References
Recommended Readings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Responding to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century
- 2 How to Read Levinas: Normativity and Transcendental Philosophy
- 3 The Ethical Content of the Face-to-Face
- 4 Philosophy, Totality, and the Everyday
- 5 Subjectivity and the Self: Passivity and Freedom
- 6 God, Philosophy, and the Ground of the Ethical
- 7 Time, History, and Messianism
- 8 Greek and Hebrew: Religion, Ethics, and Judaism
- Conclusions, Puzzles, Problems
- Recommended Readings
- Index
- References
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- The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas , pp. 247 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004).Google Scholar
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“Useless Suffering.” Trans. . In Bernasconi and Woods, pp. 156–167.
The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973).Google Scholar
Collected Philosophical Papers. (trans.). (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1998; orig. 1987).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Discovering Existence with Husserl. and (trans.). (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998).Google Scholar
“The Meaning of Religious Practice.” Trans. Peter Atterton, Matthew Calarco, and Joelle Hansel. Modern Judaism 25:3 (2005), pp. 285–289. [Orig. 1937].Google Scholar
“Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism.” Critical Inquiry 17 (Autumn 1990), pp. 63–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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. “Rereading Totality and Infinity.” In and (eds.), The Question of the Other (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 23–24 and 225–226.Google Scholar
“The Trace of Levinas in Derrida.” In Wood and Bernasconi, pp. 13–29.
“Different Styles of Eschatology: Derrida's Take on Levinas's Political Messianism.” Research in Phenomenology 28 (1998), pp. 3–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and (eds.). The Provocation of Levinas (London: Routledge, 1988).
, and (eds.). Re-Reading Levinas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
. Liturgy and the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2000).Google Scholar
(ed.). The Face of the Other and the Trace of God (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000).
. “Emmanuel Levinas' Theory of Commitment.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46:2 (1983), pp. 145–168.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. What Ought I to Do? Morality in Kant and Levinas. Trans. . (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; orig. 1998).Google Scholar
. Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. Ethics – Politics – Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought (London: Verso, 1999).Google Scholar
Very Little … Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (London: Routledge, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Five Problems in Levinas's View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to Them.” Political Theory 32:2 (2004), pp. 172–185.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. The Rationality of Transcendence: Studies in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Amsterdam: J.C. Giehen, 1997).Google Scholar
. “The Possibility of an Ethical Politics: From Peace to Liturgy.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 26:4 (2000), pp. 49–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. Ethical Criticism: Reading after Levinas (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
. A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).Google Scholar
. The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan (New York: Other Press, 2004).Google Scholar
(ed.). Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon, 1996).Google Scholar
. From Communicative Action to the Face of the Other: Levinas and Habermas on Language, Obligation, and Community (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000).Google Scholar
. “Is Liberalism ‘All We Need’?: Levinas's Politics of Surplus.” Political Theory 30:2 (2002), pp. 204–227.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927–1961 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).Google Scholar
. Interpreting Otherwise than Heidegger: Emmanuel Levinas's Ethics as First Philosophy (Pittsburgh, PA: Dusquene University Press, 1993).Google Scholar
, with and (eds.). In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the 18th Century (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2001).
. Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997).Google Scholar
(ed.). Ethics as First Philosophy: The Significance of Emmanuel Levinas for Philosophy, Literature and Religion (London: Routledge, 1995).
“Ethics without Exit: Levinas and Murdoch.” Philosophy and Literature 27 (2003), pp. 456–470.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
. “The Third: Levinas' theoretical move from an-archical ethics to the realm of justice and politics.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 25:6 (1999), pp. 83–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Argument to the Other: Reason beyond Reason in the Thought of Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983).Google Scholar
Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004).Google Scholar
, and (eds.). Derrida and Diffe̍rance (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988).
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