Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another
to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century’s
most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers.
* Comparative discussion of Lévinas on phenomenology,
ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European
philosophy and with Chinese philosophy
* Innovative accounts of Lévinasian themes of surpassing
phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy of
saintliness, transcendence and immanence, time and sensibility,
desire, death, political philosophy, the subject, and the space of
communicativity
Innehållsförteckning
CHUNG-YING CHENG / Preface.
NICHOLAS BUNNIN / Introduction.
YANG DACHUN / Lévinas and the Three Dimensions of
Surpassing Phenomenology.
JACQUES TAMINIAUX / Lévinas and Heidegger: A
Post-Heidegarrian Approach to Phenomenological Issues
DU XIAOZHEN / The Philosophy of Saintliness: Some Notes on the
Thought of Lévinas.
MO WEIMIN / Phenomenology or Anti-Phenomenology? –A Study
of the Subject in Lévinas.
SIMON CRITCHLEY / The Split Subject.
WANG LIPING / Transcendence or Immanence? Lévinas, Bergson,
and Chinese Thought.
WANG HENG / The Instant as the Key to the Escape from Being on
Lévinas’s Phenomenology of Sensibility and Time in His
Early Period
MARIE-ANNE LESCOURRET / Desire by Lévinas.
SHANG JIE / The Phenomenology of Death.
WANG TANGJIA / The Concepts of Death in Heidegger and
Lévinas
SUN XIANGCHEN / Emmanuel Lévinas and the Critique of Modern
Political Philosophy.
ROBERT BERNASCONI / Extraterritoriality: Outside the Subject,
Outside the State.
DORIAN WISZNIEWSKI / ’The Space of Communicativity’:
Lévinas and Architecture.
Om författaren
Nicholas Bunnin is Director of the Philosophy Project,
Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford and Chairman of
the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China. He
co-edited Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell 2002) and has
written on Chinese and comparative philosophy. He co-edited The
Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (1997, 2nd edition
2003) and co-authored The Blackwell Dictionary of Western
Philosophy (2004).
Yang Dachun is Professor of Philosophy, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou. He co-edited A Century with Lévinas or
the Destiny of the Other (2008) and wrote Language, Body and Other:
Three Main Themes of Contemporary French Philosophy (forthcoming).
Earlier books include studies of Kierkegaard, Derrida, Foucault,
Merleau-Ponty, structuralism, post-structuralism and
deconstruction, and he has translated major works of Merleau-Ponty
into Chinese.
Linyu Gu is Managing Editor, Journal of Chinese
Philosophy. She has written on Whitehead’s process philosophy
in relation to Chinese Philosophy and on Japanese philosophy.