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16Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (review)International Studies in Philosophy 19 (1): 90-91. 1987.
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32Levinas, Plato and Ethical ExegesisLevinas Studies 1 37-50. 2005.Chapter 7 of my book, Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas, entitled “Humanism and the Rights of Exegesis,” was devoted to elaboratingthe notion of “ethical exegesis.” The notion of ethical exegesis is not only inspired by Levinas’s thought, but expresses the essential character of it, its “method,” as it were, the “saying” of its “said.” Accordingly, here I will begin by reviewing some of what I have already said about ethical exegesis, and then I will develop this not…Read more
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17Difficulty and MortalityPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 7 (1): 59-66. 2000.I argue against the work of simplifying and applying Levinas’s thought. Simplifying Levinas misses the point of the greatness of his thought, which is addressed to the most sophisticated philosophical thinkers of his day, and calls upon them to re-ground philosophy in the ethical. Applying Levinas misses the point that Levinas’s conception of alterity is perfectly concrete, because it is linked to morality through the mortality of the other.
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Discovering Existence with HusserlRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 190 (4): 532-533. 1998.
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13Poetique du possible (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (2): 382-384. 1986.In many ways the whole of contemporary thought reduces to the search for new middle terms, such as 'desire', 'will to power', 'language', and "difference', to mediate, displace, or evade the classical philosophical dualisms, such as being and nonbeing, ideality and reality, mind and matter, is and ought. These dualisms--set up by the ancients, pursued by the moderns, and bequeathed to us contemporaries by their failures--are Kearney's target. His aim is to overcome them through the notion of fig…Read more
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18Levinas, Plato and Ethical ExegesisLevinas Studies 1 37-50. 2005.Chapter 7 of my book, Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas, entitled “Humanism and the Rights of Exegesis,” was devoted to elaboratingthe notion of “ethical exegesis.” The notion of ethical exegesis is not only inspired by Levinas’s thought, but expresses the essential character of it, its “method,” as it were, the “saying” of its “said.” Accordingly, here I will begin by reviewing some of what I have already said about ethical exegesis, and then I will develop this not…Read more
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33Face to Face with Levinas: Neighborhood Reinvestment and Displacement (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1986.An introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas' philosophy.
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12Discovering Existence with Husserl (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1998.Contemporary philosophers are increasingly turning to the work of Emmanuel Levinas to bring a consideration of ethics into their own thinking. As an exponent of the phenomenological tradition, Levinas ranks with Heidegger and Sartre; as a disciple of Husserl, he was one of the most independent and original interpreters, testifying to the fruitfulness of Husserl's phenomenology. In collecting almost all of Levinas's articles on Husserlian phenomenology, this volume gathers together a wealth of th…Read more
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9In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth CenturyTexas Tech University Press. 2001.In a world in which everything is reduced "to the play of signs detached from what is signified," Levinas asks a deceptively simple question: Whence, then, comes the urge to question injustice? By seeing the demand for justice for the other—the homeless, the destitute—as a return to morality, Levinas escapes the suspect finality of any ideology.Levinas’s question is one starting point for In Proximity, a collection of seventeen essays by scholars in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, his…Read more
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