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Unforeseen history / Emmanuel Levinas ; translated from the French by Nidra Poller ; foreword by Don Ihde ; introduction by Richard A. Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xxviii, 150 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 025202883X
  • 9780252028830
Uniform titles:
  • Imprevus de l'histoire. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 21
LOC classification:
  • B2430.L483 I4613 2004
Contents:
Foreword / Don Ihde -- Introduction / Richard A. Cohen -- Introduction to the French edition / Pierre Hayat -- Pt. I. Reflections on Hitlerism in 1934 -- 1. Some thoughts on the philosophy of Hitlerism -- Pt. 2. Husserl, Heidegger, Jean Wahl -- 2. On Ideen, by E. Husserl -- 3. Freiburg, Husserl, and phenomenology -- 4. Letter concerning Jean Wahl -- 5. Contribution to Jean Wahl's Petite histoire de l'existentialisme -- Pt. 3. Sartre, existentialism, and history -- 6. Existentialism and antisemitism -- 7. Reality and its shadow -- 8. A language familiar to us -- 9. When Sartre discovers holy history (interview with Victor Malka) -- Pt. 4. Peaceful coexistence -- 10. On the spirit of Geneva -- 11. Principles and faces -- 12. Dialectics and the Sino-Soviet quarrel -- Pt. 5. Secularism and morality -- 13. Secularism and the thought of Israel -- Pt. 6. Interviews -- 14. On the utility of insomnia (interview with Betrand Revillon) -- 15. Interview with Roger-Pol Droit.
Review: "Unforseen History covers the years of 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work - especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism - offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.

Foreword / Don Ihde -- Introduction / Richard A. Cohen -- Introduction to the French edition / Pierre Hayat -- Pt. I. Reflections on Hitlerism in 1934 -- 1. Some thoughts on the philosophy of Hitlerism -- Pt. 2. Husserl, Heidegger, Jean Wahl -- 2. On Ideen, by E. Husserl -- 3. Freiburg, Husserl, and phenomenology -- 4. Letter concerning Jean Wahl -- 5. Contribution to Jean Wahl's Petite histoire de l'existentialisme -- Pt. 3. Sartre, existentialism, and history -- 6. Existentialism and antisemitism -- 7. Reality and its shadow -- 8. A language familiar to us -- 9. When Sartre discovers holy history (interview with Victor Malka) -- Pt. 4. Peaceful coexistence -- 10. On the spirit of Geneva -- 11. Principles and faces -- 12. Dialectics and the Sino-Soviet quarrel -- Pt. 5. Secularism and morality -- 13. Secularism and the thought of Israel -- Pt. 6. Interviews -- 14. On the utility of insomnia (interview with Betrand Revillon) -- 15. Interview with Roger-Pol Droit.

"Unforseen History covers the years of 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work - especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism - offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews."--BOOK JACKET.

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