Origins of the other : Emmanuel Levinas between revelation and ethics /
"The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- True Bergsonianism : beginnings of a philosopher
- The controversy over intersubjectivity
- Nazism and crisis : the interruption of a trajectory
- Totaliter aliter : revelation in interwar thought
- Levinas's discovery of the other in the making of French existentialism
- The ethical turn : philosophy and Judaism in the Cold War.