Alterity & Transcendence (European Perspectives) - Hardcover

Levinas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231116500 ISBN 13: 9780231116503

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The English translation of 12 essays originally published in French as AltTritT et Transcendence . Written between 1967 and 1989, the essays cover a range of concerns within continental philosophy. Common to most of the articles are a concern with a transcendental ethics as the core of the philosop

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" "Alterity and Transcendence" displays Levinas's philosophical thinking very well. It is of particular interest to those who try philosophically to ground legal terms such as human rights and especially human dignity without reference to political consensus or foundational explanations." -- "Review of Metaphysics"

" Alterity and Transcendence displays Levinas's philosophical thinking very well. It is of particular interest to those who try philosophically to ground legal terms such as human rights and especially human dignity without reference to political consensus or foundational explanations." -- Review of Metaphysics

" "Alterity and Transcendence" displays Levinas's philosophical thinking very well. It is of particular interest to those who try philosophically to ground legal terms such as human rights and especially human dignity without reference to political consensus or foundational explanations." -- "Review of Metaphysics"

About the Author:

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), a pioneer of the phenomenological method, exerted profound influence on prominent postmodern thinkers including Derrida, Lyotard, Finkielkraut, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Among his seminal works that have been translated into English are Entre Nous (Columbia, 1998), Ethics and Infinity, Totality and Infinity, Time and the Other, and Existence and Existents.Michael B. Smith is professor of French and philosophy at Berry College in Georgia. He has translated several of Levinas's works, including Outside the Subject, In the Time of Nations, and Proper Names, and, with Barbara Harshav, Entre Nous (Columbia, 1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0231116500
• ISBN 13: 9780231116503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144