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Metaphysics --- Levinas, Emmanuel

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We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him inviting us to break completely with the pagan world in which the gods are simply the highest beings in the cosmos and learn to practice an adult religion in which God is outside cosmology and ontology. God comes to mind neither in our attempts to think him as the creator of the cosmos nor in moments of ecstasy but in acts of genuine holiness, such as sharing a piece of bread with someone in a time of desperate need. Levinas, in short, enjoins us to be exorbitant in our dealings with one another. This book asks how the "between" of Levinas's thinking facilitates a dialogue between Jews and Christians. In one sense, Levinas stands exactly between Jews and Christians: ethics, as he conceives it, is a space in which religious traditions can meet. At the same time, his position seems profoundly ambivalent. No one can read a page of his writings without hearing a Jewish voice as well a a philosophical one. Yet his talk of substitution seems to resonate with Christological themes. On occasion, Levinas himself sharply distinguishes Judaism from Christianity--but to what extent can his thinking become the basis for a dialogue between Christians and Jews? This book, with a stellar cast of contributors, explores these questions, thereby providing a snapshot of the current state of Jewish-Christian dialogue.

PHILOSOPHY / Religious --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Philosophical theology --- Relations --- Lévinas, Emmanuel.

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The first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work, this new edition contains three new appendixes and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon the origins, motivation and reception of ' The Ethics of Deconstruction '.

Ethics --- Derrida, Jacques, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Deconstruction. --- Derrida, Jacques -- Ethics. --- Ethics. --- Levinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics. --- Deconstruction --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Semiotics and literature --- Derrida, Jacques, - 1930-2004 --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995

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Peut-on élucider le sens de la phénoménologie ? La première section est consacrée à Husserl, la seconde à Hannah Arendt et la troisième à l'expérience phénoménologique d'autrui. La première partie vise à montrer que la phénoménologie de Husserl porte en elle des thèmes par lesquels elle se soustrait au cadre métaphysique dans lequel elle s'est formée. La deuxième partie prétend que la phénoménologie politique de Hannah Arendt conduit à une mise en question de l'idéologie des droits de l'homme mais aussi à une justification de l'idée des droits de l'homme. Cette section comprend en elle la reproduction d'un débat oral qui avait eu lieu sur France culture entre Claude Lefort, Alain Finkielkraut et Robert Legros. La troisième partie porte sur l'expérience phénoménologique d'autrui. Elle montre que cette expérience prolonge et renouvelle d'une part la conception kantienne de l'expérience du proprement humain, et d'autre part la conception tocquevillienne de l'expérience du semblable. L'examen de l'expérience phénoménologique d'autrui s'achève par une confrontation entre Arendt et Levinas.

Phénoménologie. --- Phénoménologie --- Husserl, Edmund --- Arendt, Hannah --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Husserl, Edmund (1859-1938) -- Critique et interprétation --- Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) -- Critique et interprétation --- Levinas, Emmanuel (1905-1995) -- Critique et interprétation --- Phenomenology

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"More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency seems to have become today the very horizon of our everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. The overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency-as the unnecessary and law-defying-in or for ethics? What would an alternative "ethics of contingency"-one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence-look like? The volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself. Contributors: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek"--

Contingency (Philosophy) --- Ethics. --- Emmanuel Levinas. --- Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jean-Luc Nancy. --- Karl Marx. --- Michel Foucault. --- affirmation. --- agency. --- community. --- contingency. --- deconstruction. --- dialectics. --- digitalization. --- ecology. --- ethics. --- feminist theory. --- metonymy. --- negation. --- passivity. --- relationality. --- social systems theory.