The Provocation of Levinas

The Provocation of Levinas PDF Author: Robert Bernasconi
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415008263
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Book Description
There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three different areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy, and Levinas's relation to other philosophers. It includes a newly translated paper by Levinas on suffering, and a specially commissioned interview.