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In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Levinas, Emmanuel.

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Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other that cannot be anticipated or warded off. Tracing the broad significance of these ideas, Coe shows how Levinas revises our notions of moral agency, knowledge, and embodiment. Her focus on time brings a new interpretive lens to Levinas's work and reflects on a wider discussion of the fragmentation of human experience as an ethical subject. Coe's understanding of trauma and time offers a new appreciation of how Levinas can inform debates about gender, race, mortality, and animality.

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The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Levinas, Emmanuel. --- Levinas, Emmanuel

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Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995

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Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics --- 1 LEVINAS, EMMANUEL --- Filosofie. Psychologie--LEVINAS, EMMANUEL --- 1 LEVINAS, EMMANUEL Filosofie. Psychologie--LEVINAS, EMMANUEL --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Ethics. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 - Ethics