Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger

by Tina Chanter

Book Overview

Examining Levinas's critique of the Heideggerian conception of temporality, this book shows how the notion of the feminine both enables and prohibits the most fertile territory of Levinas's thought.

According to Heidegger, the traditional notion of time, which stretches from Aristotle to Bergson, is incoherent because it rests on an inability to think together two assumptions: that the present is the most real aspect of time, and that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739323
• ISBN13: 9780804739320
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"