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52The drama of being: Levinas and the history of philosophyContinental Philosophy Review 40 (3): 251-273. 2006.The motif of the ‘drama of being’ is a dominant thread that spans the entirety of Levinas's six decades of authorship. As we will see, from the start of his writing career, Levinas consciously frames the tension between ontology and ethics in a dramatic form. A careful exposition of this motif and other related theatrical metaphors in his work–-such as ‘intrigue,’ ‘plot,’ and ‘scene’–-can offer us not only a better appreciation of the evolution of Levinas's thought, but also of his proper place …Read more
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51"Not Ethics, Not Ethics Alone, but the Holy": Levinas on Ethics and HolinessJournal of Religious Ethics 34 (4). 2006.While much has been written about Levinas's conception of ethics, very little has been said about the connection between ethics and holiness in his work. Yet, throughout much of his corpus, Levinas consistently links the two. The first part of my article addresses the important distinction that Levinas establishes between the sacred (le sacré) and holiness (la sainteté). According to Levinas, several influential thinkers conflate these two categories. Holiness, Levinas suggests, represents a kin…Read more
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31Introduction: Varieties of Continental Philosophy and ReligionSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 20 (1): 1-10. 2016.
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26Lévinas’s Critique of the SacredInternational Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4): 519-534. 2002.Lévinas’s harsh criticisms of the sacred have irked not just his critics but even some who sympathize with his work. Taken at face value, some of Lévinas’s comments concerning the sacred appear prejudicial towards non-monotheistic religions. But a closer reading of his analysis of the sacred shows that his preoccupation with the sacred has to do with a questionable “temptation” or disposition found in every human being. Drawing on the insights of the Bible, Shakespeare, and Lévy-Bruhl, Lévinas s…Read more
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24IntroductionSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 20 (1): 1-10. 2016.
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19Lévinas’s Critique of the SacredInternational Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4): 519-534. 2002.Lévinas’s harsh criticisms of the sacred have irked not just his critics but even some who sympathize with his work. Taken at face value, some of Lévinas’s comments concerning the sacred appear prejudicial towards non-monotheistic religions. But a closer reading of his analysis of the sacred shows that his preoccupation with the sacred has to do with a questionable “temptation” or disposition found in every human being. Drawing on the insights of the Bible, Shakespeare, and Lévy-Bruhl, Lévinas s…Read more
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17The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama: Faith without FaithReligions 7 (5): 43. 2016.The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of spiritual and ethical transformations as they are experienced within embodied, material life. These features of their cinema will be examined primarily through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of the imbrication of the drama of existence and…Read more
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13The Catastrophic “Site and Non-Site” of ProximityInternational Studies in Philosophy 30 (1): 33-46. 1998.
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43 The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and NihilismIn Antonio Calcagno & Diane Enns (eds.), _Thinking About Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy_, eds. Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno, Penn State University Press. pp. 46-60. 2015.
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1Beyond Tragedy and the Sacred: Emmanuel Levinas on Evasion and Moral ResponsibilityDissertation, York University (Canada). 2000.Levinas argues that tragic descriptions---from the Greeks to Nietzsche and Heidegger---rarely dare to draw the full implications of asserting that being is tragic. At the same time that it accurately attests to the irremediable character of being, the tragic position proposes a remedy that presupposes the self's capacity for transformation and meaningfulness. Heidegger, for example, holds that Dasein possesses as its highest possibility the capacity to embrace its finitude. For Levinas, however,…Read more
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Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak, Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (review)Philosophy in Review 18 290-292. 1998.
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Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak, Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (4): 290-292. 1998.
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