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Book SynopsisEmmanuel Levinas was one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. This book contains essays that explore his project of revising the phenomenological picture of the world in light of our experience of other persons.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Bibliographical Information; Translator's Introduction; Preface; 1. Martin Buber's Thought and Contemporary Judaism; 2. Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel and Philosophy; 3. Apropos of Buber: Some Notes; 4. Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker; 5. Jean Wahl: Neither Having nor Being; 6. Vladimir Jankelevitch; 7. The Meaning of Meaning; 8. On Intersubjectivity: Notes on Merleau-Ponty; 9. In Memory of Alphonse de Waelhens; 10. The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Other; 11. The Strings and the Wood: On the Jewish Reading of the Bible; 12. Everyday Language and Rhetoric Without Eloquence; 13. The Transcendence of Words: On Michel Leiris's Biffures; 14. Outside the Subject; Notes; Index.
