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Beschreibung

The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an international group of philosophers address the relationship between Levinas and the world of ancient thought. In addition to philosophy, themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are also explored. The volume as a whole provides a unified and extended discussion of how an engagement between Levinas and thinkers from the ancient tradition works to enrich understandings of both. This book opens new pathways in ancient and modern philosophical studies as it illuminates new interpretations of Levinas' ethics and his social and political philosophy.

The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an international group of philosophers address the relationship between Levinas and the world of ancient thought. In addition to philosophy, themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are also explored. The volume as a whole provides a unified and extended discussion of how an engagement between Levinas and thinkers from the ancient tradition works to enrich understandings of both. This book opens new pathways in ancient and modern philosophical studies as it illuminates new interpretations of Levinas' ethics and his social and political philosophy.

Über den Autor

Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence.
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Philosophy. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Adriaan Peperzak
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas
To Return in a New Way: Introduction / Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder
1. The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso
2. The Eternal and the New: Socrates and Levinas on Desire and Need / Deborah Achtenberg
3. Levinas Questioning Plato on Eros and Maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez
4. Getting under the Skin: Platonic Myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler
5. Lending Assistance Always to Itself: Levinas' Infinite Conversation with Platonic Dialogue / Michael Naas
6. Ethics as First Philosophy: Aristotelian Reflections on Intelligence, Sensibility, and Transcendence / Claudia Baracchi
7. Aristotle and Levinas on War and Peace: The One against the Other / Catriona Hanley
8. Stoic Ethics and Totality in Light of Levinasian Alterity / Julie Piering
9. Of a Non-Saying That Says Nothing: Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche
10. The Time and Language of Messianism: Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo
11. Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi
12. A Trace of the Eternal Return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder
13. Ethics and Predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J. J. Altizer
List of Contributors
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253219985
ISBN-10: 0253219981
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brian Schroeder
Silvia Benso
Redaktion: Schroeder, Brian
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 236 x 154 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Brian Schroeder
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2008
Gewicht: 0,42 kg
Artikel-ID: 101803787