Description: Further DetailsTitle: Entre NousCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays on Thinking-of-the-OtherISBN-10: 0231079117EAN: 9780231079112ISBN: 9780231079112Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/24/2000Description: Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evolution of continental philosophy-between modern and postmodern, phenomenology and poststructuralism, ethics and ontology. He is credited with having spurred a revitalized interest in ethics-based philosophy throughout Europe and America. Entre Nous (Between Us) is the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. Published in France a few years before his death, it gathers his most important work and reveals the development of his thought over nearly forty years of committed inquiry. Along with several trenchant interviews published here, these essays engage with issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory. Taken together, they constitute a key to Levinas's ideas on the ethical dimensions of otherness.Working from the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Levinas pushed beyond the limits of their framework to argue that it is ethics, not ontology, that orients philosophy, and that responsibility precedes reasoning. Ethics for Levinas means responsibility in relation to difference. Throughout his work, Levinas returns to the metaphor of the face of the other to discuss how and where responsibility enters our lives and makes philosophy necessary. For Levinas, ethics begins with our face to face interaction with another person-seeing that person not as a reflection of one's self, nor as a threat, but as different and greater than self. Levinas moves the reader to recognize the implications of this interaction: our abiding responsibility for the other, and our concern with the other's suffering and death. Situated at the crossroads of several philosophical schools and approaches, Levinas's work illuminates a host of critical issues and has found resonances among students and scholars of literature, law, religion, and politics. Entre Nous is at once the apotheosis of his work and an accessible introduction to it.In the end, Levinas's urgent meditations upon the face of the other suggest a new foundation upon which to grasp the nature of good and evil in the tangled skein of our lives.Language: FrenchCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 150mmItem Length: 221mmAuthor: Emmanuel LevinasTranslator: Barbara Harshav, Michael B. SmithContributor: Barbara Harshav (Translated by), Michael B. Smith (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural CriticismRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Entre Nous
Title: Entre Nous
Subtitle: Essays on Thinking-of-the-Other
ISBN-10: 0231079117
EAN: 9780231079112
ISBN: 9780231079112
Release Date: 05/24/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Michael B. Smith
Contributor: Michael B. Smith (Translated by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Entre Nous : Essays on Thinking-Of-The-Other
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Movements / Phenomenology
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 0.6 in
Author: Emmanuel Levinas
Item Width: 0.9 in
Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
