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Book SynopsisLeading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century's most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers.
- Comparative discussion of Lévinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophy
- Innovative accounts of Lévinasian themes of surpassing phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy of saintliness, transcendence and immanence, time and sensibility, desire, death, political philosophy, the subject, and the space of communicativity
Table of ContentsCHUNG-YING CHENG / Preface.
NICHOLAS BUNNIN / Introduction.
YANG DACHUN / Lévinas and the Three Dimensions of Surpassing Phenomenology.
JACQUES TAMINIAUX / Lévinas and Heidegger: A Post-Heidegarrian Approach to Phenomenological Issues
DU XIAOZHEN / The Philosophy of Saintliness: Some Notes on the Thought of Lévinas.
MO WEIMIN / Phenomenology or Anti-Phenomenology? —A Study of the Subject in Lévinas.
SIMON CRITCHLEY / The Split Subject.
WANG LIPING / Transcendence or Immanence? Lévinas, Bergson, and Chinese Thought.
WANG HENG / The Instant as the Key to the Escape from Being on Lévinas’s Phenomenology of Sensibility and Time in His Early Period
MARIE-ANNE LESCOURRET / Desire by Lévinas.
SHANG JIE / The Phenomenology of Death.
WANG TANGJIA / The Concepts of Death in Heidegger and Lévinas
SUN XIANGCHEN / Emmanuel Lévinas and the Critique of Modern Political Philosophy.
ROBERT BERNASCONI / Extraterritoriality: Outside the Subject, Outside the State.
DORIAN WISZNIEWSKI / "The Space of Communicativity": Lévinas and Architecture.
