Lévinas, Emmanuel

Unforeseen history / Emmanuel Levinas ; translated from the French by Nidra Poller ; foreword by Don Ihde ; introduction by Richard A. Cohen. - xxviii, 150 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.

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

"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.

025202883X 9780252028830

2003008356


Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Ethics.
Phenomenology.

B2430.L483 / I4613 2004

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