Emmanuel Lévinas Libri

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. schovat popis

The 13 essays in this volume-touching on ethics and philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion-investigate the possibility that the word God can be understood now, at the end of the 20th century, in a meaningful way. Nine of the essays appear in English for the first time.

This book explores the modern phenomenological movement, focusing on human experiences as lived. It discusses key figures like Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, highlighting their contributions and limitations. The author posits Heidegger as a significant contemporary thinker who offers a comprehensive ontology that aligns with phenomenology and existential thought.

Translator's Acknowledgments Author's Preface 1 Is Ontology Fundamental? 2 The I and the Totality 3 Levy-Bruhl and Contemporary Philosophy 4 A Man-God? 5 A New Rationality: On Gabriel Marcel 6 Hermeneutics and the Beyond 7 Philosophy and Awakening 8 Useless Suffering 9 Philosophy, Justice, and Love 10 Nonintentional Consciousness 11 From the One to the Other: Transcendence and Time 12 The Rights of Man and Good Will 13 Diachrony and Representation 14 The Philosophical Determination of the Idea of Culture 15 Uniqueness 16 Totality and Infinity. Preface to the German Edition 17 Dialogue on Thinking-of-the- Other 18 'Dying For . . . ' 19 The Idea of the Infinite in Us 20 The Other, Utopia, and Justice Notes Index

In this landmark study, Emmanuel Levinas discusses the aspects and function of intuition in Husserl's thought and its meaning for philosophical self-reflection. An essential and illuminating explication of central issues in Husserl's phenomenology, it is also important as a formative work of one of this century's most distinguished philosophers. Levinas focuses on the role of intuition, which he explains as "the theoretical act of consciousness that makes objects present to us". He demonstrates how Husserl's theory of intuition follows directly from his new conception of being. He then identifies intuition as the original phenomenon that leads to the concept of truth itself. In this analysis, he shows that Husserl's theory of being opens up an entirely new philosophical dimension.

Emmanuel Levinas’s interview with Françoise Armengaud in 1988 is one of the only statements we have from the philosopher, who became influential in various disciplines through his ethics that focuses on the fine arts specifically. Presented in English for the first time here, this interview brings us Levinas’s understanding of “obliteration” as an uncanny, disruptive, and even “unavailable” concept. Discussing the work of the French sculptor Sacha Sosno, Levinas parses the complex relationship between ethics and aesthetics, examining how they play out in artistic operations and practices. In doing so, he turns away from the “ease and lighthearted casualness of the beautiful” to shed light instead on the processes of material wear and tear and the traces of repair that go into the creation and maintenance of works of art, and which ultimately give them a profound uniqueness of presence. This evocative interview uncovers a hidden thread of aesthetic thinking in Levinas’s work and introduces a new way of looking at artistic practices in general. 

This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings. schovat popis

Modern problems and Talmudic texts in mutual illumination.

Argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. This book also argues that the humanity of the human is found in the recognition that the other person comes first, that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.