Emmanuel Lévinas ; translated by Alphonso Lingis.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duquesne University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xlviii, 205 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: Dordrecht, Netherlands : M. Nijhoff, 1974, in series: Martinus Nijhoff philosophy texts.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The argument -- Essense and disinterest -- The exposition -- Intentionality and sensing -- Sensibility and proximity -- Substitution -- Subjectivity and infinity -- In other words -- Outside.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Otherwise than being or beyond essence is a sequel to Levinas's totality and infinity. An immensely challenging and sophisticated work, it is generally considered Levinas's most important contribution to the contemporary debate surrounding the closure of metaphysical discourse, much commented upon by Jacques Derrida. The work contains a fundamentally original theory of the ethical relationship and describes the face-to-face relationship, sensibility, responsibility and speech. The process of the revelation of Being as laid out by modern phenomenological ontology is severely criticized, as the author claims that the ultimate account of these phenomena is not in ontology, the exposition of the meaning of Being, but in a paradoxical discourse, in a skeptical mode, of what is beyond Being."--Jacket.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Autrement qu'être.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Beyond essence
Parallel Title
Otherwise than being
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Ontology.
08.25 contemporary western philosophy (20th and 21th century)