Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity - Couverture souple

Moati, Raoul

 
9780823273201: Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
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ISBN 10 : 0823273202 ISBN 13 : 9780823273201
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after "end of metaphysics"? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.

Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger's ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of "being" beyond Heidegger's fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls "nocturnal events." Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications.

Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

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À propos des auteurs

Raoul Moati is an Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language.

Jocelyn Benoist is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823273202
ISBN 13 
9780823273201
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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ISBN 10 :  0823273199 ISBN 13 :  9780823273195
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2016
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