edited by Brian Schroeder and Silvia Benso ; with a foreword by Adriaan Peperzak
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2008
xvi, 254 p. ;
25 cm
Studies in Continental thought
Includes bibliographical references and index
The breathing of the air : presocratic echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso -- The eternal and the new : Socrates and Levinas on desire and need / Deborah Achtenberg -- Levinas questioning Plato on eros and maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- Getting under the skin : Platonic myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler -- Lending assistance always to itself : Levinas' infinite conversation with Platonic dialogue / Michael Naas -- Ethics as first philosophy : Aristotelian reflections on intelligence, sensibility, and transcendence / Claudia Baracchi -- Aristotle and Levinas on war and peace : the one against the other / Catriona Hanley -- Stoic ethics and totality in light of Levinasian alterity / Julie Piering -- Of a non-saying that says nothing : Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche -- The time and language of messianism : Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo -- Proximity in distance : Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi -- A trace of the eternal return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder -- Ethics and predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J.J. Altizer