Re-reading Levinas

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Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley
Indiana University Press, May 22, 1991 - Philosophy - 252 pages

These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy complicate and deepen Levinas's account of responsibility. The re-reading presented here continues and expands on the long-standing debate between Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Published in English for the first time are two key texts in this debate: "Wholly Otherwise" by Levinas and "At this very moment in this work here I am" by Derrida.

 

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Contents

Wholly Otherwise
3
At this very moment in this work here I am
11
Presentation
51
Immediacy and Mediation
67
Levinass Ethical Discourse between Individuation
83
On the Divinity
109
Ethics and the Feminine
119
Antigones Dilemma
130
Skepticism in the Face of Philosophy
149
BoisDerridas Final Word on Levinas
162
Textuality the Other Death
190
Reading Blanchot Reading Levinas
201
Who Suffers?
229
Contributors
247
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About the author (1991)

English philosopher Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960. He earned his BA (1985) and PhD (1988) from the University of Essex in England. Critchley received his M.Phil. from France's University of Nice in 1987. Critchley has held university fellow, lecturer, reader, and professor positions and was the Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. Additionally, Critchley was President of the British Society for Phenomenology from 1994-1999, he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and was Programme Director of the Collège International de Philosophie. Since 2004 Critchley has taught philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Critchley's publications include "The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas," the collection of essays "Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity," "Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction," "On Humour," "Things Merely Are," "Infinitely Demanding," and the New York Times bestseller "The Book of Dead Philosophers".

Bibliographic information

TitleRe-reading Levinas
Volume 624 of Midland Book
Studies in Continental Thought
EditorsRobert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley
PublisherIndiana University Press, 1991
ISBN0253206243, 9780253206244
Length252 pages
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