(P/B) THE METAPHYSICS OF LOVE - GENDER & TRANSCENDENCE IN LEVINA

Παρουσίαση

Levinas's place in the popular philosophical imagination can be summed up in the phrase 'ethics as first philosophy'. In the Anglo-American philosophical world Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the so-called 'Continental' philosophical tradition. Furthermore, it is through Levinas's profound yet often hidden influence that the 'Other' has become one of the key concepts in much contemporary work, not only in philosophy but also, for example, in feminist and postcolonial theory. However, the main thesis of this book is that a description of Levinas's fundamental philosophical project is by no means exhausted by any reference to 'ethics'; indeed that the emphasis on 'ethics' and 'the Other' in the reception and dissemination of Levinas's thought has served to cover over both the basis and the specific details of this project. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)