Emmanuel Levinas Critical assessments

455 Pages·2005·8.782 MB·English

by  Emmanuel Levinas

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EMMANUEL LEVINAS
Critical Assessments of
Leading Philo sophers
Edited by
Claire Katz with Lara Trout
Volume I
Levinas, Phenornenology and Ibis Critics
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements xiii
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Chronological table of reprinted articles and ehapters xvii
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Abbreviations XXV
VOLUME 1 I..EV INAS, PHENOMENOLOGY AND
HIS CRITICS
Introduction: Introducing 1 evinas(cid:9) 1
1 Levinas's skeptical critique of metaphysics and anti-humanism(cid:9) 7
PETER ATTERTON
2 Rereading Totality and Infinity(cid:9) 32
ROBERT BERNASCONI
3 The third party: Levinas on the intersection of the ethical
and the political(cid:9) 45
ROBERT BERNASCONI
4 Our clandestine companion(cid:9) 58
MAURICE BLANCHOT
5 The riddle of the pre-original(cid:9) 67
l'ARIO CIARAMELLI
6 II y a -- holding Levinas's hand to Blanchot's tire(cid:9) 75
SIMON CRITCHLEY
7 Violence and metaphysics: an essay on the thought of
Emmanuel Levinas(cid:9) 88
JACQUES DEMUDA
8 At this very moment in this work here I am(cid:9) 174
JACQUES DERRIDA
CONTENTS
9 Ethics and ontology: some hypocritical reflections(cid:9) 215
JEAN GREISCH
10 The fecundity of the caress: a reading of Levinas, Totality
and Infinity, section IV, B, 'The Phenomenology of Eros'(cid:9) 227
LUCE IRIGARAY
11 Levinas' notion of the "thcre is"(cid:9) 249
PHILIP LAWTON
12 The elemental imperative(cid:9) 260
ALPHONSO LINGIS
13 Levinas' logic(cid:9) 278
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD
14 A note concerning the ontological indifference(cid:9) 312
JEAN-LUC MARION
15 Emmanuel Levinas: ethics as primary meaning(cid:9) 326
STÉPHANE MOSÉS
16 Levinas' method(cid:9) 337
ADRIAAN PEPERZAK
17 Levinas and the elemental(cid:9) 352
JOHN SA E. LIS
18 Dis••possessed: how to remain silent `alter' Levinas(cid:9) 360
RUDI VISKER
19 From maieutics to metanoia: Levinas's understanding
of the philosophical task(cid:9) 387
NORMAN WIRZ 13 A
20 From ethics to language: the imperative of the Other(cid:9) 402
EDITH wvscHoGRop
21 The rhetoric of failure and deconstruction(cid:9) 415
EWA PLONOWSKA ZIAREK
VOLUME II LEVINAS AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Acknowledgements(cid:9) vii
Introduction: Levinas, history and subjectivity
22 Levinas — another ascetic priest?(cid:9) 5
SILVIA DENSO
vi
CON'rENTS
23 Levinas's `ontology' 1935-1974(cid:9) 25
BETTINA BERGO
24 Hegel and Levinas: the possibility of forgiveness and
reconciliation(cid:9) 49
ROBERT BERNASCONI
25 The original traumatism: Levinas and psychoanalysis(cid:9) 69
SIMON CRITCHLEY
26 Difficult friendship(cid:9) 83
PAUL DA VIES
27 Sense and icon: the problem of Sinngebung in Levinas
and Marion(cid:9) 106
JOHN E. DRABINSKI
28 Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas(cid:9) 123
s 1 EVEN HENDLEY
29 The primacy of ethics: Hobbes and Levinas(cid:9) 145
CIIERYL L. HUGHES
30 Reading Levinas reading Descartes' Meditations (cid:9) 161
DENNIS KING KEENAN
31 God and concept: on the love of the neighbour in Levinas
and Bergson(cid:9) 175
LEONARD I AWLOR
32 Tracework: myself and others in the moral phenomenology
of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas(cid:9) 195
DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN
33 Hermann Cohen and Enmanuel Lévinas(cid:9) 241
7E'EV LEVY
34 Levinas, Derrida, and others vis-á-vis(cid:9) 250
JOHN LLEWELYN
35 The listening eye: Nietzsche and Levinas(cid:9) 270
BRIAN SCHROEDER
36 Breaking the closed circle: Levinas and Platonic paideia (cid:9) 285
BRIAN SCHROEDER
37 Kant, Levinas, and the thought of the "other"(cid:9) 296
JERE PAUL SURBER
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CONTENTS
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38 Levinas, Kierkegaard, and the theological tasé 325
MEROLD WESTPHAJ.
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39 The moral self: Emmanuel Levinas and Hermann Cohen 347
EDITH WYSCIIOGROD
VOLUME HI LEVINAS AND THE QUESTION
OF RELIGION
Acknowledgements(cid:9) vii
Introduction: Levinas, Judaism and religion: the unlikely
match between philosophy and religion(cid:9) 1
40 Dependency and vulnerability: Jewish and feminist
existentialist constructions of the human(cid:9) 5
LEORA BATNITZKY
41 The ethics of suspicion(cid:9) 29
ROBERT BERNASCONI
42 The messianic utopia(cid:9) 44
CATHERINE CHALIER
43 Levinas and the paradox of monotheism(cid:9) 59
RICHARD A. COHEN
44 Bris mila, desire and Levinas(cid:9) 72
RICHARD A. COHEN
45 Philosophies of religion: Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas(cid:9) 80
WILLIAM DESMOND
46 Judaism and Hellenism in the philosophy of Levinas
and Heidegger (cid:9) 121
rumowntE DE ROER
47 Conscience, conscience, and consciousness: Ernmanuel
Levinas, the Holocaust and the logic of witness(cid:9) 132
SANDOR GOODHART
48 Substitution: Marcel and Levinas(cid:9) 153
ROBERT B. GIBES
49 Facing the other: Levinas, Perelman and Rosenzweig(cid:9) 167
SUSAN HANDELMAN
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CONTENTS
50 From eros to maternity: love, death, and 'the feminine'
in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas(cid:9) 190
CLAIRE ELISE KATZ
51 Love and justice: Levinas' reading of Buber(cid:9) 212
PHILIP N. LAWTON, JR.
52 From phenomenology to liberation: the displacement of history
and theology in Levinas's Totality and Infinity(cid:9) 220
JACOB MESKIN
53 Jewish existence and philosophy(cid:9) 242
ADRIAAN PEPE RZAK
54 'He' (il)(cid:9) 253
JACQUES ROLLAND
55 Questioning the sacred: Heidegger and Levinas on the locus
of divinity(cid:9) 282
SONIA SIKKA
56 Philosophy and inspiration: Chalier's Levinas(cid:9) 308
MICHAEL B. SMITH
57 The revelation of the Holy Other as the wholly other:
betwcen Barth's theology of the Word and Levinas's
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philosophy of Saying 316
GRAFIAM WARD
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58 Emmanuel Levinas and the problem of religious language 339
EDITH WYSCI-IOGROD
VOLUME IV LEV INAS, PO LITICS AND BEYOND
Acknowledgements(cid:9) vü
Introduction: Who is the other? Moving beyond Levinas's ethics(cid:9) 1
59 Who is my neighbor? Who is the Other?: Questioning
'the generosity of Western thought'(cid:9) 5
ROI3ERT BERNASCONI
60 Lévinas, Daniel Webster, and us: radical responsibility and
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the problem of evil 31
JEFFREY 13I,OF.(7IIL
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CONTENTS
61 Violence and the vulnerable face of the other: the vision
of Emmanuel Levinas on moral evil and our responsibility(cid:9) 49
ROGER BURGGRAEVE
62 Hyperbolic justice: deconstruction, myth, and politics(cid:9) 67
JOHN D. CAPUTO
63 Levinas's political judgement: the Esprit articles 1934-1983(cid:9) 85
HOWARD CAYGILL
64 Ontological difference, sexual difference, and time(cid:9) 101
TINA CHANTER
65 Post-structuralism, the ethical relation, and the law(cid:9) 136
DIU:CILLA CORNELL
66 Facing nature: Levinas beyond the human(cid:9) 176
CHRISTIAN DIEHM
67 The possibility of an ethical politics: from peace to liturgy(cid:9) 188
JOHN DRABINSKI
68 Nameless memory: Levinas, witness and politics(cid:9) 213
JAMES HATLEY
69 Is liberalism "all we need"? Lévinas's politics of surplus(cid:9) 235
ANNABEL HERZOG
70 Reinhabiting the house of Ruth: exceeding the limits of
the feminine in Levinas(cid:9) 259
CLAIRE ELISE KATZ
71 Am 1 obsessed by (lobby? (Humanism of the other animal)(cid:9) 283
JOIIN LLEWEI,YN
72 Thinking the Other without violence? An analysis of the relation
between the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and feminism(cid:9) 296
ROBERT 50FIN SHEFFLER MANNING
73 Fatherhood and the promise of ethics(cid:9) 307
KELLY OLIVER
74 A singular justice: ethics and politics between Levinas and
Derrida(cid:9) 325
DIANE PERPICH
75 Repeating the parricide: Levinas and the question of closure(cid:9) 343
JOHN PROTEVI
CONTENTS
76 Aesthetic totality and ethical infinity: Levinas on art (cid:9) 356
JILL ROBBINS
77 Writing as a man: Levinas and the phenomenology of Eros(cid:9) 369
STELLA SANDFORD
78 Faceless women and serious others: Levinas, misogyny,
and feminism(cid:9) 388
CRAIG R. VASEY
79 Traumatic response: Levinas's legacy(cid:9) 400
TINA CHANTFR
80 Adieu(cid:9) 414
JACQUES DERRIDA
81 In memoriam Emmanuel Levinas(cid:9) 427
PAUL RICOEUR