God, death, and time
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God, death, and time
（Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors）
Stanford University Press, c2000
- hard. : alk. paper
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Dieu, la mort et le temps
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-296)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most important-and difficult-book, Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence. Both courses pursue issues related to the question at the heart of Levinas's thought: ethical relation. The Foreword and Afterword place the lectures in the context of his work as a whole, rounding out this unique picture of Levinas the thinker and the teacher.
The lectures are essential to a full understanding of Levinas for three reasons. First, he seeks to explain his thought to an audience of students, with a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his written work. Second, the themes of God, death, and time are not only crucial for Levinas, but they lead him to confront their treatment by the main philosphers of the great continental tradition. Thus his discussions of accounts of death by Heidegger, Hegel, and Bloch place Levinas's thought in a broader context. Third, the basic concepts Levinas employs are those of Otherwise than Being rather than the earlier Totality and Infinity: patience, obsession, substitution, witness, traumatism. There is a growing recognition that the ultimate standing of Levinas as a philosopher may well depend on his assessment of those terms. These lectures offer an excellent introduction to them that shows how they contribute to a wide range of traditional philosophical issues.
Table of Contents
- Translator's Foreword
- Foreword Jacques Rolland
- Part I. Death and Time: Initial Questions
- What do we know of death
- The death of the other [D'Autrui] and my own
- An obligatory passage: Heidegger
- The analytic of Dasein
- Dasein and death
- The death and totality of Dasein
- Being-toward-death as the origin of time
- Death, anxiety, and fear
- Time considered on the basis of death
- Inside Heidegger: Bergson
- The radical question: Kant against Heidegger
- A reading of Kant (continued)
- How to think nothingness?
- Hegel's response: the science of logic
- Reading Hegel's science of logic (continued)
- From the science of logic to the phenomenology
- Reading Hegel's phenomenology (continued)
- The scandal of death: from Hegel to Fink
- Another thinking of death: Starting from Bloch
- A reading of Bloch (continued)
- A reading of Bloch: Toward a conclusion
- Thinking about death on the basis of time
- To conclude: Questioning again
- Part II. God and Onto-Theo-Logy: Beginning with Heidegger
- Beginning and meaning
- Being and world
- To think God on the basics of ethics
- The same and the other
- The subject-object correlation
- The question of subjectivity
- Kant and the transcendental ideal
- Signification as saying
- Ethical subjectivity
- Transcendence, idolatry, and secularization
- Don Quixiote: bewitchment and hunger
- Subjectivity as an-archy
- freedom and responsibility
- The ethical relationship as a departure
- The extra-ordinary subjectivity of responsibility
- The sincerity of the saying
- Glory of the infinite and witnessing
- Witnessing and ethics
- From consciousness to prophetism
- In praise of insomnia
- Outside of experience: the Cartesian idea of the infinite
- A God 'transcendent to the point of absence'
- Postscript Jacques Rolland
- Notes.
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