Description
Book SynopsisThis book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.
Trade Review"Whether or not one agrees with Levinas's unique reading and criticism of Western philosophy and theology, this book must be appreciated for its radical approach to ethics and theology. It deserves careful engagement by all Christian theologians and ehticists whose common intellectual background is the very target of Levinas's criticism."—
Theological Studies"This book serves as a supplement to Levinas's other works. . . . Whether or not on agrees with Levinas's unique reading and criticism of Western philosophy and theology, this book must be appreciated for its radical approach to ethics and theology. It deserves careful engagement by all Christian theologians and ethicists whose common intellectual background is the very target of Levinas's criticism."—
Theological Studies"There is no other primary source that would be a more accessible introduction to Levinas's work."—
Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's Foreword; Foreword Jacques Rolland; Part I. Death and Time: Initial Questions; What do we know of death; The death of the other [D'Autrui] and my own; An obligatory passage: Heidegger; The analytic of Dasein; Dasein and death; The death and totality of Dasein; Being-toward-death as the origin of time; Death, anxiety, and fear; Time considered on the basis of death; Inside Heidegger: Bergson; The radical question: Kant against Heidegger; A reading of Kant (continued); How to think nothingness?; Hegel's response: the science of logic; Reading Hegel's science of logic (continued); From the science of logic to the phenomenology; Reading Hegel's phenomenology (continued); The scandal of death: from Hegel to Fink; Another thinking of death: Starting from Bloch; A reading of Bloch (continued); A reading of Bloch: Toward a conclusion; Thinking about death on the basis of time; To conclude: Questioning again; Part II. God and Onto-Theo-Logy: Beginning with Heidegger; Beginning and meaning; Being and world; To think God on the basics of ethics; The same and the other; The subject-object correlation; The question of subjectivity; Kant and the transcendental ideal; Signification as saying; Ethical subjectivity; Transcendence, idolatry, and secularization; Don Quixiote: bewitchment and hunger; Subjectivity as an-archy; freedom and responsibility; The ethical relationship as a departure; The extra-ordinary subjectivity of responsibility; The sincerity of the saying; Glory of the infinite and witnessing; Witnessing and ethics; From consciousness to prophetism; In praise of insomnia; Outside of experience: the Cartesian idea of the infinite; A God 'transcendent to the point of absence'; Postscript Jacques Rolland; Notes.
