The Problem with Levinas

By Simon Critchley & Alexis Dianda

Release : 2015-07-16

Genre : Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Social Science

Kind : ebook

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Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to others has become highly influential. Simon Critchley proposes a dramatic new way of reading Levinas's work, and provides a less familiar, more troubling, account of it. He argues that Levinas's fundamental problem was the attempt to escape the tragic fatality of Heidegger's philosophy.

The Problem with Levinas

By Simon Critchley & Alexis Dianda

Release : 2015-07-16

Genre : Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Social Science

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to others has become highly influential. Simon Critchley proposes a dramatic new way of reading Levinas's work, and provides a less familiar, more troubling, account of it. He argues that Levinas's fundamental problem was the attempt to escape the tragic fatality of Heidegger's philosophy.

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