
Facing the Other
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Sean Hand(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-415-59250-5 (ISBN)
Description
Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-59250-5 (9780415592505)
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Person
Sean Hand is Professor of French and Head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also author of Emmanuel Levinas (Routledge, 2008), editor of The Levinas Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, reprint) and translator of Levinas's Difficult Freedom (Johns Hopkins, 2010, 9th reprint). He is equally author of Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris (Legenda, 2004).
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Feminine, Otherness, Dwelling, Alison Ainley; Chapter 2 On Substitution, David F. Ford; Chapter 3 Levinas and Freud, Steven Gans; Chapter 4 Shadowing Ethics, Sean Hand; Chapter 5 'Let's Leave God Out of This', Michael Holland; Chapter 6 Infinition and Apophansis, Benjamin Hutchens; Chapter 7 A Supreme Heteronomy?, Philip Leonard; Chapter 8 Levinas and the Jewish Ideal of the Sage, A. H. Lesser; Chapter 9 On Time and Salvation, Graham Ward;