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The contributions of this volume discuss the legacy of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy. Examining critically the limits of his thinking, they also bear witness to its influence on contemporary philosophy, thus demonstrating the significance of his groundbreaking project of establishing ethics as first philosophy. In four parts, “First Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Ethics,” “Phenomenology and its Theological Turn?,” “Ethics and Aesthetics,” “Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction,“ the major themes in Levinas’ oeuvre are addressed, such as alterity, human dignity, religion, and communication. Contributors: Thomas Baumeister, Andris Breitling, Roger Burggraeve, Arthur Cools, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Eddo Evink, Matthias Flatscher, Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Alwin Letzkus, Burkhard Liebsch, Michel Lisse, Stefano Micali, Marcel Poorthuis, Renée van Riessen, Johan Taels, László Tengelyi, Rudi Visker, Jacques de Visscher, Elisabeth Weber.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

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This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century.

Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Philosophers --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 - Bibliography --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 --- Levinas, Emmanuel.

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe, there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired, ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.

Psychoanalysis. --- Ethics. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Levinas, Emmanuel.

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Long description: Was bedeutet es, naher Angehöriger eines Menschen im Wachkoma zu sein? An- und Zugehörige werden mit weitaus mehr Aufgaben und Herausforderungen als denen der Pflegebedürftigkeit des zumeist schwerst körperlich und geistig Erkrankten konfrontiert. Die vorliegende fachübergreifende Arbeit mit dem Titel Wer ist der Andere? schildert umfassend die Erfahrungen und das Erleben pflegender, begleitender und betreuender Angehöriger an der Seite eines Menschen mit erworbener Hirnschädigung und reflektiert diese mithilfe des die Grenzen des Verstehens aufzeigenden Denkens Emmanuel Levinas'. Aus dem Blickwinkel dieser zutiefst humanen Philosophie erhalten aktuelle Diskussionen über ein Leben mit Krankheit und ein Sterben in Würde sowohl in Hinblick auf medizinethische Fragestellungen als auch in Bezug auf den gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Umgang mit den betroffenen Familien neue Impulse. Diese fußen -- auch vor dem Hintergrund der modernen Leistungsgesellschaft und dem Kostendruck des Gesundheitswesens -- auf einem verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Anderssein und Veränderung individuellen Lebens und erteilen jeglicher Beliebigkeit zwischenmenschlicher Beziehung eine klare Absage.

Gerechtigkeit --- Pflege --- Verantwortung --- Medizinethik --- Wachkoma --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics

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"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.

Le ́vinas, Emmanuel. --- Ethics, Modern --- Judaism --- Philosophy, French --- Philosophy --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics. --- Ethics, Modern. --- Philosophy. --- Levinas, Emmanuel