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Levinas and the ancients

Title
Levinas and the ancients / edited by Brian Schroeder and Silvia Benso ; with a foreword by Adriaan Peperzak.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Schroeder, Brian.
  • Benso, Silvia.
Description
xvi, 254 pages; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in Continental thought
Uniform Title
Studies in Continental thought.
Subject
  • Lévinas, Emmanuel
  • Philosophy, Ancient > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Adriaan Peperzak -- Abbreviations of Works / Emmanuel Levinas -- To Return in a New Way: Introduction / Silvia Benso, Brian and Schroeder -- 1. The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso -- 2. The Eternal and the New: Socrates and Levinas on Desire and Need / Deborah Achtenberg -- 3. Levinas Questioning Plato on Eros and Maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- 4. Getting Under the Skin: Platonic Myths in Levinas / Tanja Stahler -- 5. Lending Assistance Always to Itself: Levinas' Infinite Conversation With Platonic Dialogue / Michael Naas -- 6. Ethics as First Philosophy: Aristotelian Reflections on Intelligence, Sensibility,and Transcendence / Claudia Baracchi -- 7. Aristotle and Levinas on War and Peace: The One Against the Other / Catriona Hanley -- 8. Stoic Ethics and Totality in Light of Levinasian Alterity / Julie Piering -- 9. Of a Non-Saying That Says Nothing: Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche -- 10. The Time and Language of Messianism: Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo -- 11. Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi -- 12. A Trace of the Eternal Return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder -- 13. Ethics and Predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J. J. Altizer.
ISBN
  • 9780253351807 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253351804 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253219985 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253219981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008000606
  • 40015728529
OCLC
  • ocn190785272
  • 190785272
  • SCSB-5423550
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries