Levinas and Literature
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Edited by:
Michael Fagenblat
About this book
Open Access
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.
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Chapters address Levinas's posthumously published diaries and drafts of novels
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Contributors from France, Belgium, Israel, and the USA
Author / Editor information
Michael Fagenblat, Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel; Arthur Cools, University of Antwerp. Belgium.
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Frontmatter
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Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies
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Contents
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Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy
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The Anarchy of Literature
1 - Part I: Eros
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Eros, Emmanuel Levinas’s Novel?
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Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy
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The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The “Scene of Alençon”
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From Eros to the Question of the Death of God
63 - Part II: Biblical Texts
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Languages of the Universal. Levinas’ (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature
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The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama
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Literature as a Burning Bush
117 - Part III: Poetry
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Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire?
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“Lès-Poésie?”: Levinas Reads La folie du jour
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Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas’s Works
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The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan
175 - Part IV: Novel Writers
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The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time
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Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of Léon Bloy
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Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas
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Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement
239 - Part V: Literary Theory
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Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics
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Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno
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