The Event of the Good
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Christopher Buckman
About this book
Centers on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, aiming to understand this important thinker on his own terms.
To read Levinas in a Levinasian way means to understand this important thinker on his own terms, thinking "ethics as first philosophy," without reducing his role to that of a contributor to some other discourse, such as phenomenology, deconstruction, or religious traditions other than his own. This volume offers a variety of interventions into how the priority of the ethical-as formulated by Emmanuel Levinas and seconded by Richard A. Cohen, one of his preeminent interpreters-reorients philosophy to its own questioning-indeed, to its very sense of itself as meaningful. In the decades since Levinas first emerged as a profound and critical voice, many have used his thought to illuminate a broad range of philosophical questions. Often this has occurred in ways that have deemphasized or altered what is arguably Levinas's most radical gesture: reframing philosophy, indeed reframing the meaning of meaning, via an ethical turn. To this end, the essays in this volume, drawing especially on Cohen's reading of Levinas, offer insights into how appropriations and assessments of his philosophy might become more in line with the urgency and full meaning of his notion of the ethical. Whether discussing ethics, aesthetics, politics, or Jewish thought, when taken together, they enhance our comprehension of ethics and Levinas's philosophy of responsibility.
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Reviews
"The essays in this volume offer ways of reading Levinas's philosophical corpus that are more in tune with how Levinas himself invites approaches consistent with his own formulations of his project. This is indeed a welcome development." — James D. Hatley, Salisbury University
"This book is unique in the way it foregrounds attempts to read Levinas through his own lens and methods. The essays collected here emphasize a faithfulness to Levinas's work throughout, and, through many different angles and approaches, they exhibit what happens when his words and work are generally trusted and relied upon to shape interpretation." — Eric R. Severson, Seattle University
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The Event of the Good James M. McLachlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Path I Reading Levinas
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Jean-Michel Salanskis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Richard A. Cohen’s Contributions Jack Marsh and Christopher L. Southland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas Robert Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Did Rich Cohen Eat Al Lingis’s Octopus? Don Ihde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Marie-Anne Lescourret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Elevations Edith Wyschogrod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Path II Ethical Exegesis
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Between Art, Criticism, and Ethics Rossitsa Varadinova Borkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Masato Goda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ethical Exegesis and Ethical Body Irina Poleshchuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Steven Shankman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Seeing with Cohen and Levinas Jolanta Saldukaitytė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Path III Ontological Contests
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Levinas’s Reading of Spinoza Jacques J. Rozenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Brunella Antomarini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Christopher Buckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Levinas and Badiou in the Post-Postmodern Condition Chung-Hsiung Lai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Emmanuel Levinas on the First Challenge to Jewish Thought Today Richard Sugarman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Reading “Dying For . . .” Adverbially Sandor Goodhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Path IV Ethical Religion
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On How Emmanuel Levinas Finds Inspiration in Vasily Grossman for His Vision of a Humane Society Roger Burggraeve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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On Richard Cohen’s Levinasian Meditations on Sartre and Theology James M. McLachlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Mark K. Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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A Phenomenology of חסד Chesed for Asylum-seeking Refugees Devorah Wainer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Conclusion Cohen Responds
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