ISBN:
0804730938
,
9780804730938
,
0804730946
,
9780804730945
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 211 pages
,
24 cm
Edition:
2nd ed
Year of publication:
1998
Series Statement:
Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Uniform Title:
De Dieu qui vient à l'idée
DDC:
212
Keywords:
God
;
Ontology
;
God
;
Ontology
;
Ontologie (filosofie)
;
God
Abstract:
Part I.A Rupture of Immanence. 1. Ideology and idealism --- 2. From consciousness to wakefulness: starting from Husser --- 3. On death in the thought of Ernst Bloch --- 4. From the carefree deficiency to the new meaning ---- Part II. The Idea of God. 5. God and philosophy --- 6. Questions and answers --- 7. Hermeneutics and beyond --- 8. The thinking of being and the question of the other --- 9. Transcendence and evil ---- Part III. The Meaning of Being. 10. Dialogue: Self-consciousness and proximity of the neighbor --- 11. Notes on meaning --- 12. The bad conscience and the inexorable --- 13. Manner of speaking.
Abstract:
Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most original philosophers in the twentieth century. In this book, continuing his thought on obligation, he investigates the possibility that the word God can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. The thirteen essays collected in this volume offer an introduction to the wide range of Levinas's thought, addresses philosophical questions concerning politics, language and religion and the philosophies of, amongst others, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Marx and Derrida. The essays also touch on the Marxist concept of ideology, death, hermeneutics, the concept of evil, the philosophy of dialogue, the relation of language to the Other, and the acts of communication and mutual understanding. Nine of the essays appear in English for the first time
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-211)
,
Translated from the French
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