Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.
Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple-and accurate-oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson
Part I. Immanence and Transcendence
1. Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of ‘First’ Philosophy
Ann Murphy
2. Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence
Philip J. Maloney
3. Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History
Eric S. Nelson
Part II. Temporalities
4. The Sincerity of the Saying
Didier Franck, Translated by Robert Vallier
5. Time’s Disquiet and Unrest: the Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas
Emilia Angelova
6. Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit
Simon Critchley
Part III. Subjectivities
7. Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology?
Françoise Dastur
8. Useless Sacrifice
Robert Bernasconi
9. The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger
François Raffoul
Part IV. Other Others
10. Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger
Peter E. Gordon
11. Which Other, Whose Alterity? The Human after Humanism
Krzysztof Ziarek
12. Elsewhere of Home
John E. Drabinski
List of Contributors
Index
Circa l’autore
Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.
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