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Description

1. xix, 294 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Lévinas, Emmanuel
2. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
3. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
4. Lévinas, Emmanuel
5. Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
6. Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
7. Heidegger, Martin
8. 1900-1999
9. Time > History > 20th century
10. Death > History > 20th century
11. Femininity (Philosophy) > History > 20th century
12. Death
13. Femininity (Philosophy)
14. Time
15. Feminismus
16. Tod
17. Weiblichkeit
18. Zeit
19. Philosophie
20. Tijd
21. Dood
22. Vrouwelijkheid
23. Ontologie (filosofie)

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. The Heidegger Affair -- Heidegger's Reorientation of the Tradition -- Descartes's Obstinate Legacy for Feminist and Race Theory -- Historical Consciousness and Social Change -- The Need to Rethink Time and History -- The Metaphysical Paradox of Time and Being -- An Overview of Levinas's Critique of Heidegger on Time -- Ontological Difference, Sexual Difference, and Time -- Two Freedoms, Two Moralities ... Two Registers of Language -- Interruption -- Dwelling with the Feminine in Totality and Infinity -- Philosophy as Critique -- Accomplishment, Constitution, Conditioning -- The Temporality of Representation: After the Event -- Heidegger and Feminism: Bodies, Others, Temporality -- Bodies and Materiality -- Others in the World of Dasein -- Temporality and History -- Heidegger's Critique of Metaphysical Presence -- The Temporality of Saying: Politics Beyond the Ontological Difference -- The Trajectory of Levinas's Analysis of Temporality -- The Saying and the Said -- Not Yet Time: The Paradox of the Instant -- Heidegger on Death, Time, and Others -- Politics -- Giving Time and Death: Levinas, Heidegger, and the Trauma of the Gift -- Impossible Possibility: Thinking Ethics After Levinas with Rosenzweig and Heidegger in the Wake of the Shoah -- Rosenzweig on Creation, Revelation, and Redemption -- Death and the Totality of History -- Death as Fundamental -- Thinking After Levinas -- A Mourning of Philosophy: Levinas's Legacy as Traumatic Response -- The Betrayal of Philosophy -- Levinas's Language -- The Alternating Movement of Philosophy.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.