Levinas and the Greek Heritage Followed by One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France: A Brief Philosophical History

by Wj Hankey and Jean-Marc Narbonne

Levinas and the Greek Heritage shows that throughout his career, Emmanuel Levinas always admired and recognized his profound debt to Plato and to the philosophical tradition he initiated, which have been largely transmitted to us by the Neoplatonists, most notably Plotinus and Proclus. How can we read Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence in any other way than as some sort of Neoplatonic programme, prolonging Plato's Good "beyond being"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042917660
• ISBN13: 9789042917668
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"