Thinking Difference with Heidegger and Levinas: Truth and Justice (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought) - Softcover

Uljée, Rozemund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438478801 ISBN 13: 9781438478807

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2021

Synopsis

Highlights the extent to which the two thinkers share a common philosophical framework, while also demonstrating how Levinas shifts the orientation of philosophical thinking from truth to justice.

Tracing the relationship between truth and justice as articulated by Heidegger and Levinas, Rozemund Uljée presents the relation between the two thinkers as a subtle, profound, and complex rapport, which includes both their proximity and radical difference. This rapport is conceived not as a confrontation, but rather as a transformation, as Levinas's notion of justice does not renounce Heidegger's account of truth and its deployment. Thinking Difference with Heidegger and Levinas shows how the ethical relation transforms the essence and task of philosophy in its entirety, since it shifts the orientation of philosophy and the task of thinking from its concern with truth as ground or foundation to a question of justice. As a result, philosophy is no longer riveted to Being and its truth, but answers to the call for justice and must be conceived of as infinite commencement, where its impossibility to totalize meaning ensures that it remains open to the alterity of transcendence.

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About the Author

Rozemund Uljée is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438478801
• ISBN 13: 9781438478807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294