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Time in the Philosophy of Emmanuel LevinasDissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1979.
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18Humanism of the OtherUniversity of Illinois Press. 2003.Levinas on the possibility and need for humanist ethics In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. In paperback for the first time, Levinas's work here is based in a new appreciation for ethics and takes new distances from phenomenology, idealism, and skepticism to rehabilitate humanism and restore its promises. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization that re…Read more
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18Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and LevinasUniversity of Chicago Press. 1994.This elevating pull of an ethics that can account for the relation of self and other without reducing either term is the central theme of these essays.
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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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11Discovering 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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8In 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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56Some Notes on the Title of Levinas’s Totality and Infinity and its First SentenceStudia Phaenomenologica 6 (n/a): 117-137. 2006.Alternative oppositions to “infinity” and “totality” are suggested, examined and shown to be inadequate by comparison to the sense of the opposition contained in title Totality and Infinity chosen by Levinas. Special attention is given to this opposition and the priority given to ethics in relation Kant’s distinction between understanding and reason and the priority given by Kant to ethics. The book’s title is further illuminated by means of its first sentence, and the first sentence is illumina…Read more
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14Levinas and the paradox of monotheismIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 3--59. 2005.
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17Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher and JewRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 62 (2/4). 2006.Levinas seamlessly unites philosophy and religion via ethics. By doing so he satisfies philosophy's quest for justification by finding it neither in epistemology nor aesthetics (nor in an escapist "fundamentalism") but in the responsibility of each person for each other and for all others. That is to say, the "ground" of meaning emerges neither in intellect nor imagination but in the moral responsibilities one person has for another and, beyond these already infinite obligations, in the justice …Read more
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30Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2002.Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another
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31Levinas, Rosenzweig, and the Phenomenologies of Husserl and HeideggerPhilosophy Today 32 (2): 165-178. 1988.
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40Heidegger’s Dasein-Analytic of Instrumentality In Being and Time and the Thinking of The “Extreme Danger” of the Question of Technology, and Frederick Tonnies’Community And SocietyPhilosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 91-100. 2010.
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Against theology, or the devotion of a theology without theodicy : Levinas on religionIn Kevin Hart & Michael Alan Signer (eds.), The exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas between Jews and Christians, Fordham University Press. 2010.
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20Some Notes on the Title of Levinas’s Totality and Infinity and its First SentenceStudia Phaenomenologica 6 (n/a): 117-137. 2006.Alternative oppositions to “infinity” and “totality” are suggested, examined and shown to be inadequate by comparison to the sense of the opposition contained in title Totality and Infinity chosen by Levinas. Special attention is given to this opposition and the priority given to ethics in relation Kant’s distinction between understanding and reason and the priority given by Kant to ethics. The book’s title is further illuminated by means of its first sentence, and the first sentence is illumina…Read more
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13Non-in-difference in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz RosenzweigGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 13 (1): 141-153. 1988.
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51Levinas: Just War or Just War: Preface to Totality and InfinityBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 10 (2): 152-170. 1998.none
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Elevations. The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and LevinasTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (1): 158-158. 1997.
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