The Oxford Handbook of Levinas
by Michael L. Morgan
1st Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780190455934 |
| eText ISBN | 9780190910693 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publishing Year | 2019 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 880 |
The Oxford Handbook of Levinas, 1st Edition, edited by Michael L. Morgan, presents a comprehensive study of Levinas's philosophical corpus. The volume centers on his defining commitments to the primacy of the ethical and to ethics as our responsibility to and for others.
Essays in the collection trace his intellectual development against major historical and philosophical contexts, ranging from ancient and modern thinkers to continental contemporaries. The volume also examines formative biographical events, including his wartime prison notebooks and reflections on the Holocaust.
In addition to addressing central philosophical themes, the handbook considers how Levinas's writings engage religious traditions and inform contemporary scholarship across moral thought and political theory.
Table of Contents
Part I: Life, Background, and Influences
Chapter 1: Levinas's Prison Notebooks
Chapter 2: Levinas and the Holocaust
Chapter 3: Levinas, Blanchot, and Art
Chapter 4: Levinas and Husserl
Chapter 5: Levinas and Heidegger: The Elemental Confrontation
Chapter 6: Levinas and Derrida
Chapter 7: Levinas Reading the Ancients
Chapter 8: Levinas and Early Modern Philosophy
Chapter 9: Levinas and German Idealism: Fichte and Hegel
Part II: Main Philosophical Themes
Chapter 10: Levinas's Philosophy of Transcendence
Chapter 11: Levinas and the Face of the Other
Chapter 12: "Subjectivity Must Be Defended": Substitution, Entanglement, and the Prehistory of the Me in Levinas
Chapter 13: Levinas, Politics, and the Third Party
Chapter 14: Levinas, Darwall, and Løgstrup on Second-Personal Ethics: Command or Responsibility?
Chapter 15: Levinas on God and the Trace of the Other
Chapter 16: Levinas on Temporality and the Other
Chapter 17: Levinas's Accounts of Messianism
Part III: Religion and the Religious Dimension
Chapter 18: Levinas and the Bible
Chapter 19: Theological Terms in the Philosophy of Levinas
Chapter 20: Levinas and Christianity
Chapter 21: Levinas as a Reader of Jewish Texts: The Talmudic Commentaries
Chapter 22: Levinas's Jewish Writings
Chapter 23: Levinas's Ethics, Politics, and Zionism
Part IV: Ethics Beyond Philosophy
Chapter 24: Levinas and Education
Chapter 25: Levinas and Film
Chapter 26: Levinas, Literature, and Philosophy
Chapter 27: The Question of Food and Philosophy in Levinas
Chapter 28: Levinas and the Ethics of War and Peace
Chapter 29: Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: An Ethical Metaphysics of Reasons
Chapter 30: Levinas and the Law of Torts
Chapter 31: Levinas and the Critical Philosophy of Race
Chapter 32: Levinas on Psychology, Identity, and Caring for Others
Part V: Critical Assessments of Levinas
Chapter 33: Levinas on Nature and Naturalism
Chapter 34: Levinas's Humanism and Anthropocentrism
Chapter 35: Levinas, Feminism, and Temporality
Chapter 36: Levinas on the Problem of Language: Expressing the Inexpressible
Chapter 37: Levinas on Ecology and Nature
Chapter 38: Levinas, Philosophy, and Biography
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