Tag: Levinas

Free Download Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler, "Leibowitz and Levinas: Between Judaism and Universalism"
English | ISBN: 1644698536 | 2022 | 100 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Emmanuel Levinas were amongst the two leading Jewish thinkers to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. This book puts in dialogue these two titanic figures, particularly within the framework of their respective critiques of political theology, European totalitarianism, as well as their doctrinal approaches to the Zionist enterprise. This work constitutes a lens through which to reappraise some of the chief questions of contemporary Jewish identity, including the Holocaust, the State of Israel, Diaspora Jewry, modernity and traditionalism, as well as continuity and change.

Free Download Peter Atterton, "Face to Face With Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question"
English | ISBN: 1438474091 | 2019 | 230 pages | PDF | 1270 KB
This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surrounding the moral status of animals in Levinas’s work. The book offers ten essays by leading scholars, along with a general introduction that places Levinas’s philosophy in the context of the growing field of animal ethics. The aim of the volume is to encourage dialogue on how we can extend Levinas’s ethics beyond its traditional human confines and to spur further research on the opportunities and challenges it raises.

Free Download Leswin Laubscher, "Levinas for Psychologists "
English | ISBN: 1032320087 | 2023 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1007 KB + 7 MB
Levinas for Psychologists provides a rigorous, yet accessible, examination of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy and its implications for psychology and the human and social sciences.

Free Download Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas By Batnitzky, Leora
2006 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 052186156X | PDF | 3 MB
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, first published in 2006, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of ‘religion’, suggesting ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.

Free Download Colin Davis Jr., "Levinas: An Introduction"
English | 2007 | pages: 178 | ISBN: 0268013144, 4772004777 | PDF | 12,9 mb
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the twentieth century.

Free Download Will Buckingham, "Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling "
English | ISBN: 1441124152 | 2013 | 192 pages | PDF | 1156 KB
The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Free Download Levinas’s Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity By James R. Mensch, Anthony J. Steinbock (editor)
2015 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0810130548 | PDF | 2 MB
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas’s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas’s discussion of ""the Other,"" yet it is known as a ""difficult"" book.Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith’s commentary on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas’s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas’s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas’s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with regard to Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida. Students using this book alongside Totality and Infinity will be able to follow its arguments and grasp the subtle phenomenological analyses that fill it.

Free Download Matthew Stone, "Levinas, Ethics and Law"
English | ISBN: 1474400760 | 2016 | 184 pages | PDF | 867 KB
Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within contexts as varied as human rights, private law, refugee law, and on the nature of judicial reasoning. This book explores what unites such apparently diverse applications of his ideas, and in doing so considers the challenge of law’s ethical relationship with the other.

Free Download Rafael Winkler, "Philosophy of Finitude: Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche"
English | ISBN: 1350059366 | 2018 | 208 pages | PDF | 1495 KB
Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible – to thought’s own limits.