...This chapter argues for a phenomenology and theology of grace on the basis of response, bringing the theological understanding of grace as prevenient into conversation with Levinas's notion of the posteriority of the anterior. Levinas may be seen to be suspended between the Jew and the Christian...

...This chapter begins by taking into account alternative views of the ethical subject in Levinas's thought by turning first to its emergence following the coming into being of an autonomous self, depicted principally in the opening sections of Totality and Infinity...

...Between Levinas and Christianity, the thesis of certain possibilities present already in any human face and not only in the singular face of Jesus Christ must go hand in hand with the idea that God does not explicitly intervene in our affairs and yet somehow does leave each of us bound to one...

...This chapter examines Jacques Derrida as a Jewish intellectual, locating in his work expressions of his identity as an intellectual and as a Jew. It applies insights from Derrida's philosophy of literature to his relationship with Emmanuel Levinas, probing the similarities and differences...

...Details Blanchot’s early friendship with Emmanuel Levinas, during their student days. Looks into the relationship between a Jewish and a Catholic student, mediated by philosophical study. Derrida Jacques Levinas Emmanuel Bataille Georges Proust Marcel Sade Donatien Alphonse François de Valéry...

...This chapter explores the implications of the book’s attempt to understand the role that futurity plays in the phenomenological method. These implications are both within the book (for example, why the discussion of Husserl, Levinas and Derrida but not of Heidegger; why the focus on methodological...

...This chapter argues for the centrality of futurity for all of Levinas’s thought. It begins by explaining the central role that the future plays in the early works, focusing especially on Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. However, the emergence of the notion of the trace...

...This chapter shows the implications ofLevinas’s understanding of futurity for phenomenology as a discipline. Initially, Levinas’s notion of the reversal of Sinngebung suggests that even absolute consciousness (in Husserl’s sense) is constituted. This fact does not merely add to Husserl’s...

... of this account of phenomenology is based on a distinct account of futurity: eschatology. This notion of eschatology is essential to Levinas’s attempt to reimagine phenomenology as an essentially intentional and ethical enterprise. Finally, the book explores Derrida’s reconciliation of the phenomenologies...

...This chapter deals with a revolution in ethical thinking (which started by Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre). It argues that responsibility is not dependent on a person's (or society's) ability to prevent an injustice. It demonstrates why people are ultimately responsible to the world...

...This chapter discusses Emmanuel Levinas' criticism on the inhumanity of art in his essay “Reality and Its Shadow”. It explains that the il y a plays a central role in Levinas' thinking and in his determination of the nonethical nature of the work of art. Levinas places transitional...

... and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas”, Derrida's l'autre combines the features of the absolutely other and the alter ego, thus yoking the Hebraic and Hellenic while keeping each heterogeneous. Al Kalâbâdhî Muhammad ibn Ishaq Abu Bakr Traité de soufisme Derrida Jacques...

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...“Levinas in Latin America” focuses upon four types of ethical philosophy in Latin American and Latinamericanist thought: theological, literary, political, and deconstructive. First, Graff Zivin evaluates theologian Enrique Dussel’s...

...This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise conscience experience, which was also emphasized in Jacques Derrida's Aporias and The Gift of Death...

...This essay explores the divergent though intertwined presentations of Jewish identity in the post World War Two philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. There is a temporal, geographical and cultural gulf that separates these two thinkers but these distances can be bridged at the site...

...This essay challenges Jacques Rancière’s reading of Derrida’s ethics and politics, which Rancière sees as dependent on that of Emmanuel Levinas and thus theological. It disputes this reading by articulating the difference between the poet and the rabbi in Derrida’s work through considerations...

...The essay moves from art and architecture that discloses the violence, displacement and loss inherent in human life to explore how Liebeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin responds to the Holocaust that calls on us for a further response. With Levinas and Arendt it is found that the distinctly human...

... in contemporary debates with Arendt, Derrida, Levinas, and Ricoeur. The Shoah was the pivotal historical event in Jankélévitch’s life. This book poses his question “is forgiveness possible as a response to evil?” and shows why it remains a potent philosophical question today. It argues for the unity...

... elaborating a positive model of identity, building in particular on Heidegger's account of a fundamental human relatedness (Mitsein). Heidegger is contrasted with Sartre and Levinas, and parallels between phenomenology and recent cognitive neuroscience are explored. The chapter argues that Heidegger does...