Between Levinas and Heidegger, livre ebook

Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple—and accurate—oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.Introduction John E. Drabinski and Eric S. Nelson Part I. Immanence and Transcendence 1. Critique, Power, and Ontological Violence: The Problem of "First" Philosophy Ann Murphy 2. Dreaming Otherwise than Icarus: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Secularization of Transcendence Philip J. Maloney 3. Heidegger, Levinas, and the Other of History Eric S. Nelson Part II. Temporalities 4. The Sincerity of the Saying Didier Franck, Translated by Robert Vallier 5. Time's Disquiet and Unrest: the Affinity between Heidegger and Levinas Emilia Angelova 6. Originary Inauthenticity: On Heidegger's Sein und Zeit Simon Critchley Part III. Subjectivities 7. Levinas and Heidegger: Ethics or Ontology? Françoise Dastur 8. Useless Sacrifice Robert Bernasconi 9. The Question of Responsibility between Levinas and Heidegger François Raffoul Part IV. Other Others 10. Displaced: Phenomenology and Belonging in Levinas and Heidegger Peter E. Gordon 11. Which Other, Whose Alterity? The Human after Humanism Krzysztof Ziarek 12. Elsewhere of Home John E. Drabinski List of Contributors Index