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NUP BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT (SPRING 2005 CATALOG) Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still (editors); Addressing Levinas ( ISBN
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international group of scholars on a corpus becoming increasingly central to
contemporary continental philosophy and ethics.
At a time of great and increasing interest
in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this volume draws readers into what Levinas
described as "philosophy itself"--"a discourse always addressed
to another." Thus the philosopher himself provides the thread that runs
through these essays on his writings, a thread guided by the importance of the
fact of being addressed--the significance of the Saying which is much more than
the Said. The authors, leading Levinas scholars and interpreters from
across the globe, explore the philosopher's relationship to a wide range of
intellectual traditions, including theology, philosophy of culture, Jewish
thought, phenomenology and the history of philosophy. They also engage Levinas's contribution to ethics, politics, law, justice,
psychoanalysis and epistemology, among other themes.
In their radical singularity, these
essays reveal the inalienable alterity at the heart
of Levinas's ethics. At the same time, each essay
remains open to the others, and to the perspectives and positions they
advocate. Thus the volume, in its quality and diversity, enacts an authentic
encounter with Levinas's thought, embodying an
intellectual ethics by virtue of its style. Bringing together contributions
from philosophy, theology, literary theory, gender studies, and political theory,
this book offers a deeper and more thorough encounter with Levinas's
ethics. It shows readers a productive approach to a body of work that is
becoming increasingly central to contemporary continental philosophy and
ethics.
"Emmanuel Levinas is today generally recognized to be one of the most
important European thinkers of the twentieth century. If one wished to read a
single volume to get a sense of the range and depth of contemporary criticism
on this major, indispensable figure, Addressing Levinas would have to be
it. This outstanding collection of essays brings together many of the
best-known commentators on Levinas’s work—as well as
some of his finest translators into English—on a variety of essential topics,
from Levinas’s original reinterpretation of ethics,
ontology, and phenomenology (for example, his analyses of the face, the Other,
and death) to his important but often neglected political works, his rich
Talmudic readings, and his suggestive if sometimes problematic relation to
psychoanalysis and questions of sexual difference. Addressing Levinas is
a collection wholly worthy of its most eminent and, sadly, now silent
addressee." — Michael Naas, Professor of Philosophy,
"Given the rapidly growing interest in Levinas, this volume has to be
seen as an important contribution. Addressing Levinas gathers together
the best-known scholars working today in French thought. Frequently reflecting
on contemporary events, these essays demonstrate that Levinas's
thought is not only appropriate but more than ever trenchant." — Leonard Lawlor,
Table of Contents
Eric Sean Nelson and Antje Kapust, Preface
Kent Still, Introduction
1. Jill Robbins, Strange Fire
2. Claire Elise Katz, The Responsibility of Irresponsibility: Taking
(Yet) Another Look at the Akedah
3. James Hatley, Beyond Outrage: The Delirium
of Responsibility in Levinas’s Scene of Persecution
4. Wayne Froman, The
Strangeness in the Ethical Discourse of Emmanuel Levinas
5. Michael B. Smith, Levinas: A Transdisciplinary
Thinker
6. Margret Grebowicz, Between Betrayal and
Betrayal: Epistemology and Ethics in Derrida’s Debt to Levinas
7. Bernhard Waldenfels, Levinas on the Saying
and the Said
8. Alphonso Lingis, Bare
Humanity
9. Leslie Macavoy, The
Other Side of Intentionality
10. Anthony Steinbock, Face and Revelation:
Levinas on Teaching as Way-Faring
11. François Raffoul, Being and the Other:
Ethics and Ontology in Levinas and Heidegger
12. David Wood, Some Questions for my Levinasian
Friends
13. Robert Bernasconi, Levinas
and the Struggle for Existence
14. John Drabinski, Wealth
and Justice in a U-topian Context
15. David Michael Kleinberg-Levin, Persecution: The Self at the
Heart of Metaphysics
16. Antje Kapust, Returning
Violence
17. Bettina Bergo, Levinasian Responsibility and Freudian Analysis:
Is the Unthinkable an Un-conscious?
18. Diane Perpich, Sensible Subjects: Levinas
and Irigaray on Incarnation and Ethics
19. Tina Chanter, Conditions: The Politics of Ontology and the
Temporality of the Feminine
Eric Sean Nelson
is an assistant professor at the
Antje Kapust is a lecturer at Ruhr-Universität
Bochum in
Kent Still is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at