Emmanuel Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Jewish Thought
Series: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy; 40;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 10 April 2025
- ISBN 9789004701106
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 692 g
- Language English 694
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Short description:
The overarching argument of this book is that we must read Levinas in his context. Levinas?s complete context consists of four intersecting dimensions: phenomenology, hermeneutics, Bible, and Talmudic interpretation and debates. Only when we read him this way do we understand the originality of his philosophical contribution, and why it is indispensable to us in a secular time disabused of politics and striving to justify ethics.
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These essays unfold a complex picture from phenomenology to Talmudic readings. The essays show how radically Levinas expanded genetic phenomenology toward preconscious and intersubjective affectivity. They discuss Levinas' appropriation of Heidegger?s early hermeneutics as secular revelation of what-is toward a phenomenology of the unseen, adapting Maimonides' two-leveled conception of language. Pursuing the source of Heidegger's ontological difference to Eckhart, the book unearths the important influence of Maimonides on Eckhart, and Levinas' recourse to Maimonides' negative theology. It then explores two strains of biblical hermeneutics: a Hassidic source, via Buber, and a rationalist one, through Levinas. It closes with a consideration of politics, both revolutionary and that of ?difference.?
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Contents
Introduction
1 The Face in Levinas: toward an Aesthetics of Responsibility/Substitution
Summary
1.1 The Ambiguous Face: Language or Immediacy, History or Perception?
1.2 A History of the Face in Levinas
1.3 What, Then, Is a Face?
1.4 The Face as Expression; Art as Expression: Supposing the Face Were a Work of Art?
1.5 The Insistence of Emotional Memory: Camp Raisko
1.6 The Phenomenology of the ?Un-conscious?: from the Insistence of Memory to ?Substitution??a Conclusion
2 The Later Levinas: Substitution II (How to Radicalize a Phenomenological Epoch?)
Summary
2.1 Time and Transcendental Consciousness
2.2 Passive Synthesis and a Synthesis That Does Not Produce ?Meaning?
2.3 A Solipsistic Constitution of the Social?
2.4 The Formalism of an Ethics of Renewal
2.5 Levinas? Hermeneutic Expansion of Husserl
3 Radical Passivity in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (Coll?ge de France Lectures, 1954?1955)
Summary
3.1 Radical Passivity in Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974)
3.2 Institution and the Body
3.3 Two Visions: the World, Ontology, and the Preconscious
3.4 Merleau-Ponty on Sleep: the De-differentiated Body
3.5 Merleau-Ponty and Levinas: the Hermeneutic Expansion of Phenomenology
3.6 Sleep as Private Reality, Private World
3.7 The Oneirism of Wakefulness and the Perceptual Quality of Dreams
3.8 The Dream and the Phenomenological Unconscious
3.9 Consciousness and Relationships with the World
4 A Heideggerian Prelude to Levinas? Hermeneutics
Part I: Religious Thought as the Deformalization of Metaphysics
Summary
4.1 Deformalization: Affects and the Renewal of Practical Philosophy
4.2 The Course Not Given: Medieval Mysticism, Meister Eckhart, and Maimonides
4.3 The Reconstruction of Categories: Heidegger?s Phenomenological Interpretation of Aristotle (the ?Aristotle Introduction?)
Acknowledgments
5 ?There Is a Sapphire?
Part II Levinas? Approach to Deformalization
Summary
5.1 Introduction: Heidegger, Maimonides, and Levinas
5.2 ?L?Actualité de Ma?monide? (Published 1 January 1935)
5.3 Formal Indication, Finitude, and the Being That Confers Existence
5.4 Theorizing Service: Levinas and Maimonides
5.5 Being as Physis or Nature and World: the Problem of Totality
5.6 Metaphor and Language, Metaphor as Speech and Address
5.7 By Way of Conclusion
6 ?The Jewish People Do Not Dream?: Paradoxes of Identification in Jewish Writing
Summary
Introduction: the Jewish People Does Not Dream
6.1 Two Different Approaches to Jewish Texts: Buber?s Bible and Levinas? Talmuds
6.2 Buber?s Biblical Humanism
6.3 Identification as Incorporation and the Transformation of the Voice
6.4 Nakedness and Becoming
6.5 Erum: Being Naked, and Shrewd
6.6 The Psychoanalytic Counter-Narrative: the Birth of Anxiety in Transgression and Traumatism
6.7 Freud and Buber: the Work of Foreclosure
6.8 Oedipus and Moses: Paradoxes of Paternity
6.9 Tragedy, Irony, and the Witz
6.10 Anarchism and the Circle of Origin, or: Why the Jewish People Does Not Dream
7 ?And God Created Woman?: on Justice and Difference in Two Talmudic Readings
Summary
Introduction: Revolutions and Movements
7.1 ?And God Created Woman?
7.2 To Form, Vay(y)itzer
7.3 The Woman and the Human, and the Logic of Discovery
7.4 Beauty and Form
7.5 The Last Created, The First Punished (Face and Tail; Visage et Queue)
7.6 Conclusion: Justice and Radical Difference
Acknowledgments
After Word, on the Sapphire
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