Levinas and Literature : : New Directions / / Arthur Cools, Michael Fagenblat.

• Author: Fagenblat, Michael
• MitwirkendeR: Annelies Schulte, Nordholt,; Arthur, Cools,; Ashraf, Noor,; Danielle, Cohen-Levinas,; Eli, Schonfeld,; Eric, Hoppenot,; François-David, Sebbah,; Jan, Bierhanzl,; Jean-Luc, Nancy,; Kevin, Hart,; Luc, Anckaert,; Marcel, Poorthuis,; Michael, Fagenblat,; Michaël, de Saint-Cheron,; Shira, Wolosky,; Tammy Amiel, Houser,; Vivian, Liska,
• HerausgeberIn: Cools, Arthur,; Fagenblat, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 314 p.)

The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies -- Contents -- Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy -- The Anarchy of Literature -- Part I: Eros -- Eros, Emmanuel Levinas’s Novel? -- Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy -- The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The “Scene of Alençon” -- From Eros to the Question of the Death of God -- Part II: Biblical Texts -- Languages of the Universal. Levinas’ (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature -- The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama -- Literature as a Burning Bush -- Part III: Poetry -- Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire? -- “Lès-Poésie?”: Levinas Reads La folie du jour -- Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas’s Works -- The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan -- Part IV: Novel Writers -- The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time -- Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of Léon Bloy -- Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas -- Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement -- Part V: Literary Theory -- Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics -- Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno