Levinas Between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty That Adorns the Earth

by Berttina Bergo and Bettina Bergo

The act of thought-thought as an act-would precede the thought thinking or becoming conscious of an act. The notion of act involves a violence essentially: the violence of transitivity, lacking in the transcendence of thought. . . Totality and Infinity The work of Emmanuel Levinas revolves around two preoccupations. First, his philosophical project can be described as the construction of a formal ethics, grounded upon the transcendence of the other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792356942
• ISBN13: 9780792356943
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"