Bеing for thе Othеr: Emmаnuеl Lеvinаs, Ethicаl Living аnd Psychoаnаlysis (Mаrquеttе Studiеs in Philosophy)
Publisher: Mаrquеttе Univеrsity Prеss
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $30.00
While the work of the great French philosopher and Jewish scholar Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) is beginning to become better known in this country,2 he is regarded in France “as the most important ethical thinker of the twentieth century,”3 recognized alongside such giants as Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. Philosopher Philippe Nemo further describes Levinas as “the philosopher of ethics, without doubt the sole moralist of contemporary thought,” while Derrida has indicated that “the reverberations of his thought will have changed the co...