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ISBN 10: 0415310490 
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Author: Claire Elise Katz

Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has influenced a wide range of intellectuals, from French thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Marion, to American philosophers Stanley Cavell and Hillary Putnam.
This set will be a useful resource for scholars working in the fields of literary theory, philosophy, Jewish studies, religion, political science and rhetoric.
Titles also available in this series include, Karl Popper (November 2003, 4 Volumes, £475), and the forthcoming titles Edmund Husserl (2005, c.4 Volumes, c. £475) and Gottlob Frege (2005, c.4 Volumes, c. £475).

Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: Levinas, History, and Subjectivity

• Levinas's place in the history of philosophy.
• His method of "reading" and engaging with the tradition.
• The central themes addressed in this volume.

Part I: Levinas and Ancient/Early Modern Philosophy

• Chapter 1: Levinas Reading the Ancients
  • (e.g., An analysis of Levinas's relationship with Plato, Aristotle, and the problem of the good beyond being.)
• Chapter 2: Levinas and Early Modern Philosophy
  • (e.g., A discussion of his critique of Descartes's cogito and the primacy of the subject.)
• Chapter 3: The Skeptical Critique of Metaphysics
  • (e.g., Levinas's engagement with the problem of totality in Western metaphysics, from Parmenides to Spinoza.)

Part II: Levinas and German Idealism

• Chapter 4: Levinas and German Idealism: Fichte and Hegel
  • (e.g., An essay on the challenge of Hegelian totality and dialectics to Levinas's ethics of the Other.)
• Chapter 5: Hegel and Levinas: The Possibility of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
  • (A specific comparative study on a key theme.)
• Chapter 6: Levinas's 'Ontology'
  • (A paper examining his early engagement with Heidegger and the concept of il y a.)

Part III: Levinas and 20th-Century Continental Philosophy

• Chapter 7: Levinas and Husserl
  • (A discussion of Levinas's phenomenological method and his departure from Husserlian intentionality.)
• Chapter 8: Levinas and Heidegger: The Elemental Confrontation
  • (A key chapter on his famous critique of Heidegger's ontology and the priority of the question of Being.)
• Chapter 9: Levinas and Derrida
  • (Exploring the relationship between their philosophies of alterity, justice, and responsibility.)
• Chapter 10: Levinas, Blanchot, and Art
  • (An analysis of their shared interest in the "there is" (il y a) and the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.)
• Chapter 11: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
  • (A comparison of their respective phenomenologies of the body and intersubjectivity.)

Part IV: Levinas and Other Key Thinkers

• Chapter 12: Levinas and Nietzsche
  • (A critical assessment of Levinas's relationship with Nietzsche's critique of morality and the will to power.)
• Chapter 13: Levinas and Freud/Psychoanalysis
  • (Examining the ethical and political implications of their respective understandings of subjectivity.)
• Chapter 14: Levinas and Marx
  • (A look at the ethical implications of economic structures.)
• Chapter 15: God and Philosophy: On the Love of the Neighbour in Levinas and Bergson
  • (A comparative study of their views on ethics and intuition.)

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