Sensibility and Singularity

John E. Drabinski

Description

Is Emmanuel Levinas a dismissive critic of Husserlian phenomenology, or an important member of its movement? The standard account of Levinas's work assumes his distance from Husserl. In opposition to this account, Sensibility and Singularity contends that Husserl was a vital, living resource for Levinas throughout his philosophical career. The singularity of the Other is the centerpiece of Levinas's thought. The philosophical significance of this singularity, however, cannot be fully appreciated without attending to Levinas's transformation of the Husserlian themes of time, materiality, intentionality, and sense. This book documents those transformations and establishes their centrality to Levinas's notion of ethics. What emerges from this reading is a thorough account of Levinas's constant and productive debate with the Husserlian tradition of phenomenology.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Unsuspected Horizons: On the Husserl Question

2. The Subject outside Itself: Transcendence and Materiality in the 1940s and 1950s

3. The Subject in Question: Relation and Sense in Totality and Infinity

4. Sensation, Trace, Enigma: Rethinking Sensibility in the 1960s

5. Impressions of Sense: Materiality in Otherwise than Being

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791490877
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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John E. Drabinski

N TA L P H ILO S O P H Y

Sensibility and Singularity The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas

A VO LU M E IN T H E S U N Y S ERIES IN C O N T EM P O RA RY C O N T IN E

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Sensibility and Singularity

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SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

Sensibility and Singularity

The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas

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John E. Drabinski

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Drabinski, John E., 1968– Sensibility and singularity : the problem of phenomenology in Levinas / John E. Drabinski. p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4897-5 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-4898-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Levinas, Emmanuel. 2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938—Influence. I. Title. II. Series.

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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations

Contents

Introduction 1Unsuspected Horizons: On the Husserl Question 2The Subject outside Itself: Transcendence and Materiality in the 1940s and 1950s

3The Subject in Question: Relation and Sense in Totality and Infinity 4Sensation, Trace, Enigma: Rethinking Sensibility in the 1960s 5Impressions of Sense: Materiality inOtherwise than Being Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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