Debating Levinas legacy / / edited by Andris Breitling, Chris Bremmers, Arthur Cools ; contributors Thomas Baumeister [and seventeen others].

• Superior document: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Breitling, Andris,; Bremmers, Chris,; Cools, Arthur,; Baumeister, Th.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The contributions of this volume discuss the legacy of Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy. Examining critically the limits of his thinking, they also bear witness to its influence on contemporary philosophy, thus demonstrating the significance of his groundbreaking project of establishing ethics as first philosophy. In four parts, “First Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Ethics,” “Phenomenology and its Theological Turn?,” “Ethics and Aesthetics,” “Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction,“ the major themes in Levinas’ oeuvre are addressed, such as alterity, human dignity, religion, and communication. Contributors: Thomas Baumeister, Andris Breitling, Roger Burggraeve, Arthur Cools, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Eddo Evink, Matthias Flatscher, Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Alwin Letzkus, Burkhard Liebsch, Michel Lisse, Stefano Micali, Marcel Poorthuis, Renée van Riessen, Johan Taels, László Tengelyi, Rudi Visker, Jacques de Visscher, Elisabeth Weber.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Levinas’ Defence of Intellectualism: An Undecidable Ambiguity? / Arthur Cools -- Singularity without Identity in Levinas / László Tengelyi † -- The Inhuman Core of Human Dignity: Levinas and Beyond / Rudi Visker -- The Human Person: Vulnerability and Responsiveness. Reflections on Human Dignity, Religio, and the Other’s Voice / Burkhard Liebsch -- The Deformalization of Time / Stefano Micali -- Schlaflosigkeit / Elisabeth Weber -- Twisting Ways: Emmanuel Levinas on How not to Talk about God / Roger Burggraeve -- Metaphysics in Phenomenology: Levinas and the ‘Theological Turn’ / Eddo Evink -- The Holy Text and Violence: Levinas and Fundamentalism / Marcel Poorthuis -- Identity: Gaining It by Losing It? The Notion of kenosis / Renée D. N. van Riessen -- Antlitz und Porträt. Überlegungen zu Kunst und Ethik im Denken von Emmanuel Levinas / Thomas Baumeister -- À l’écoute de l’invisible / Sylvie Courtine-Denamy † -- Abstraction et expression dans les arts plastiques / Jacques De Visscher -- Zur responsiven Dimension der Sprache und ihren Implikationen auf das menschliche Selbstverständnis. Überlegungen zum Verhältnis zwischen Heidegger und Levinas / Matthias Flatscher -- The Risk and Promise of Communication: Levinas and Ricoeur on Language, Responsibility, and Recognition / Andris Breitling -- The Contaminated Wound: Derrida on the Language of Levinas / Gert-Jan van der Heiden -- „Auf das Unerwartete gefasst sein“ – Über die Grenzen der Geschichte nach Heidegger, Derrida und Levinas / Alwin Letzkus -- L’hymen de Levinas / Michel Lisse -- Suffering and Humour in Søren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas / Johan Taels.