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10No Love for Singer: The Inability of Preference Utilitarianism to Justify Partial RelationshipsGnosis 10 (1): 1-9. 2008.
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100Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo (eds.), Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1): 220-224. 2011.
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27Education as ethics: Emmanuel Levinas on Jewish schoolingContinental Philosophy Review 51 (4): 481-505. 2018.For Levinas, the moment of real meaning is in the relation sustained with alterity. This relation is difficult or impossible to characterize philosophically, however, because to render it in comprehensive or objective terms would reduce the relation to one of comprehension and make it commensurate with the ego. Thus philosophy has an ambivalent status with respect to transcendence and ethics; but Levinas is convinced of the essentially transcendent or ethical meaning of Judaic practice: Talmudic…Read more
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47Ullrich Haase, Starting with Nietzsche (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1): 245-248. 2011.
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11Starting with Nietzsche (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1): 245-248. 2011.
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18The Question of the TeacherSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 20 (1): 129-149. 2016.The following paper traces the relevance of teaching and pedagogy in Levinas’s philosophy of transcendence and ethics. By turning to his philosophy of language—including his posthumously published lectures on the phenomenology of sound and the voice—this paper addresses some dif????iculties with the attempt to develop a philosophy of education departing from his work. Education appears to be the uniquely well-suited site for an ethical philosophy, and yet any claims about education and attempts …Read more
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19Theoretical Responsibility: Levinas on Language and the Ethical Status of the Philosophical QuestionPhilosophy Today 58 (3): 441-466. 2014.This paper is an investigation into the double meaning of “ethics” as both a practical endeavor and an area of theoretical inquiry, two meanings which both necessitate and eclipse one another. This investigation is carried out by way of analysis of the Levinasian claim that ethics ought to precede ontology, and through a detailed analysis of Levinas’s philosophy of language
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16Nietzsche and Levinas (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1): 220-224. 2011.
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45Richard A. Cohen, Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (2): 216-219. 2011.
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13Levinasian Meditations (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (2): 216-219. 2011.
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7Education as Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas on Jewish SchoolingContinental Philosophy Review 51 (4): 481-505. 2018.For Levinas, the moment of real meaning is in the relation sustained with alterity. This relation is difficult or impossible to characterize philosophically, however, because to render it in comprehensive or objective terms would reduce the relation to one of comprehension and make it commensurate with the ego. Thus philosophy has an ambivalent status with respect to transcendence and ethics; but Levinas is convinced of the essentially transcendent or ethical meaning of Judaic practice: Talmudic…Read more
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The Question of the Teacher: Levinas and the Hypocrisy of EducationSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 1 (20): 129-149. 2016.The following paper traces the relevance of teaching and pedagogy in Levinas’s philosophy of transcendence and ethics. By turning to his philosophy of language—including his posthumously published lectures on the phenomenology of sound and the voice—this paper addresses some difficulties with the attempt to develop a philoso- phy of education departing from his work. Education appears to be the uniquely well-suited site for an ethical philosophy, and yet any claims about education and attempts t…Read more
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16Theoretical Responsibility: Levinas on Language and the Ethical Status of the Philosophical QuestionPhilosophy Today 58 (3): 441-466. 2014.This paper is an investigation into the double meaning of “ethics” as both a practical endeavor and an area of theoretical inquiry, two meanings which both necessitate and eclipse one another. This investigation is carried out by way of analysis of the Levinasian claim that ethics ought to precede ontology, and through a detailed analysis of Levinas’s philosophy of language.
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