Addressing Levinas.0810120488 Addressing Levinas. Ed. by Eric Sean Nelson et al. Northwestern U. Press 2005 342 pages $29.95 Paperback Northwestern University studies in phenomenology phenomenology, modern school of philosophy founded by Edmund Husserl. Its influence extended throughout Europe and was particularly important to the early development of existentialism. & existential philosophy B2430 US and European scholars mostly of philosophy but also literature and Jewish studies, critique the work of Emmanual Levinas and the responses of his critics. Their topics include the delirium delirium Condition of disorientation, confused thinking, and rapid alternation between mental states. The patient is restless, cannot concentrate, and undergoes emotional changes (e.g., anxiety, apathy, euphoria), sometimes with hallucinations. of responsibility in his scene of persecution, epistemology and ethics in Derrida's debt to him, the struggle for existence, and the politics of ontology ontology: see metaphysics. ontology Theory of being as such. It was originally called “first philosophy” by Aristotle. In the 18th century Christian Wolff contrasted ontology, or general metaphysics, with special metaphysical theories and the temporality tem·po·ral·i·ty n. pl. tem·po·ral·i·ties 1. The condition of being temporal or bounded in time. 2. temporalities Temporal possessions, especially of the Church or clergy. Noun 1. of the feminine. There is no index. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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