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Discovering Levinas
Contributor(s): Morgan, Michael L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521759684     ISBN-13: 9780521759687
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $52.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 2009293533
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (1.60 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Emmanuel Levinas is well known to students of twentieth-century continental philosophy, especially French philosophy. But he is largely unknown within the circles of Anglo- American philosophy. In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles this task by placing Levinas in conversation with philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Onora O'Neill, Charles Taylor, and Cora Diamond. He also seeks to understand Levinas within philosophical, religious, and political developments in the history of twentieth-century intellectual culture. Morgan demystifies Levinas by examining his unfamiliar and surprising vocabulary, interpreting texts with an eye to clarity, and arguing that Levinas can be understood as a philosopher of the everyday. Morgan also shows that Levinas's ethics is not morally and politically irrelevant nor is it excessively narrow and demanding in unacceptable ways. Neither glib dismissal nor fawning acceptance, this book provides a sympathetic reading that can form a foundation for a responsible critique.

Contributor Bio(s): Morgan, Michael L.: - Michael L. Morgan has been a professor at Indiana University for 31 years and, in 2004, was named a Chancellor's Professor. He has published articles in a variety of journals, edited several collections, and authored four books, most recently Interim Judaism (2001). He is the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy.
 
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