Totality and infinity at 50

Totality and infinity at 50

by Davidson, Scott Perpich, Diane

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"Essays by 14 Levinas scholars provide a fresh acount of the argument and purpose of Emmanuel Levinas's major work, Totality and Infinity, drawing parallels between Levinas and other thinkers; considering Levinas's relationship to other disciplines such as nursing, psychotherapy, and law; and bringing this seminal text to bear on specific, concrete issues of present-day concern"--

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  • Full title :Totality and infinity at 50 / edited by Scott Davidson and Diane Perpich.

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"Essays by 14 Levinas scholars provide a fresh acount of the argument and purpose of Emmanuel Levinas's major work, Totality and Infinity, drawing parallels between Levinas and other thinkers; considering Levinas's relationship to other disciplines such as nursing, psychotherapy, and law; and bringing this seminal text to bear on specific, concrete issues of present-day concern"--

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  • Publication Date:2012

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9780820705835, 0820705837
  • oclc:ocn809317542
  • LC Classification:BD396.L433
  • Dewey Decimal:111

Table of Contents

Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder / Silvia Benso -- Unspoken Unity : I, Who Enjoy and Desire / Adriaan Peperzak and Stacy Bautista -- "All that Is Holy Is Profaned" : Levinas and Marx on the Social Relation / Asher Horowitz -- Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary / Michael L. Morgan -- The Fundamental Idea of Levinas's Philosophy / Georg W. Bertram -- Don't Try This at Home : Levinas and Applied Ethics / Diane Perpich -- Law, Ethics, and the Unbounded Duty of Care / Desmond Manderson -- The Rights of the Other : Levinas and Human Rights / Scott Davidson -- Ethics as Teaching : The Figure of the Master in Totality and Infinity / Joëlle Hansel -- Turning toward the Other : Ethics, Fecundity, and the Primacy of Education / Claire Katz -- Future Interva l: On Levinas and Glissant / John Drabinski -- Levinas's Ethical Critique of Levinasian Ethics / Robert Bernasconi.

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