Alterity and Transcendence - Couverture rigide

Levinas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231116500 ISBN 13 : 9780231116503

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The English translation of 12 essays originally published in French as AltTritT et Transcendence . Written between 1967 and 1989, the essays cover a range of concerns within continental philosophy. Common to most of the articles are a concern with a transcendental ethics as the core of the philosop

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive -- not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231116500
• ISBN 13: 9780231116503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible