Levinas's Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and InfinityBy virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas’s discussion of “the Other,” yet it is known as a “difficult” book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith’s commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas’s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas’s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas’s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with regard to Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida. Students using this book alongside Totality and Infinity will be able to follow its arguments and grasp the subtle phenomenological analyses that fill it. |
Contents
| 3 | |
| 11 | |
2 The Preface | 19 |
3 Metaphysical Desire Totality and Infinity I A | 27 |
4 Separation and Discourse Totality and Infinity I B | 41 |
5 Truth and Justice Totality and Infinity I C | 60 |
6 Separation and Absoluteness Totality and Infinity I D | 69 |
7 Interiority and Economy Totality and Infinity II A B C 1 2 | 74 |
9 The Face Totality and Infinity III A B | 114 |
10 The temporality of Finite Freedom Totality and Infinity III C | 131 |
the Analytic of the Erotic Totality and Infinity IV A G | 148 |
12 Conclusions Totality and Infinity IV Conclusions 1 12 | 175 |
Notes | 193 |
| 221 | |
| 227 | |
8 Dwelling and Freedom Totality and Infinity II C 3 E 3 | 92 |
Other editions - View all
Levinas's Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity James R. Mensch No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
According to Levinas action alterity appears Aristotle asserts being-in-the-world ChAPTER child conception consciousness constitute Dasein death degger Descartes disclose disclosure discourse Edmund Husserl embodied Emmanuel Levinas enjoyment epistemology erotic ethical relation existence existential analytic experience exteriority face face-to-face fact fecundity feminine finite freedom future given goal grasp Hegel Heidegger Heidegger’s Heideggerian hence human Husserl ibid idea of infinity identity implies individual infinite insofar intentions interiority interpretation involves Kant Kant’s labor language Levinas expresses Levinas writes Levinas’s words living manifests Martin Heidegger means metaphysical moral multiplicity ness Nicomachean Ethics NOTES TO PAGES nothingness object one’s oneself ontology Other’s ourselves Parmenides past perception person Phenomenology philosophy plurality position possible present presupposes projects question reason regard representation responsibility result Robert Bernasconi sense sensuous separation signifies situation speaking temporal things thought tion TOTALITY AND INFINITY trans transcendence truth understanding unique unity University