Of God who comes to mind
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Of God who comes to mind
（Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors, . Crossing aesthetics）
Stanford University Press, 1998
[2nd ed.]
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De Dieu qui vient à l'idée
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Note
"Preface to the Second Edition", pp.ix-x
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-211)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word "God" can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. Nine of the essays appear in English translation for the first time.
Among Levinas's writings, this volume distinguishes itself, both for students of his thought and for a wider audience, by the range of issues it addresses. Levinas not only rehearses the ethical themes that have led him to be regarded as one of the most original thinkers working out of the phenomenological tradition, but he also takes up philosophical questions concerning politics, language, and religion. The volume situates his thought in a broader intellectual context than have his previous works. In these essays, alongside the detailed investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, Rosenzweig, and Buber that characterize all his writings, Levinas also addresses the thought of Kierkegaard, Marx, Bloch, and Derrida.
Some essays provide lucid expositions not available elsewhere to key areas of Levinas's thought. "God and Philosophy" is perhaps the single most important text for understanding Levinas and is in many respects the best introduction to his works. "From Consciousness to Wakefulness" illuminates Levinas's relation to Husserl and thus to phenomenology, which is always his starting point, even if he never abides by the limits it imposes. In "The Thinking of Being and the Question of the Other," Levinas not only addresses Derrida's Speech and Phenomenon but also develops an answer to the later Heidegger's account of the history of Being by suggesting another way of reading that history.
Among the other topics examined in the essays are 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.
Table of Contents
Preface Forward Part I. A Rupture of Immanence: 1. Ideology and idealism 2. From consciousness to wakefulness: starting from Husserl 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 Notes.
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