- Format
- Online resource
- Author/Creator
- Morgan, Michael L., 1944-
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Contents
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1. Auschwitz, politics, and the twentieth century; 2. Phenomenology and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Meaning, culture, and language; 6. Subjectivity and the self; 7. God and philosophy; 8. Time, Messianism, and diachrony; 9. Ethical realism and contemporary moral philosophy; 10. Beyond language and expressibility; 11. Judaism, ethics, and religion; Conclusion: Levinas and the primacy of the ethical: Kant, Kierkegaard, and Derrida; Appendix. Facing reasons: agent-neutral reasons and Levinasian ethics.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Auschwitz, politics, and the twentieth century; 2. Phenomenology and transcendental philosophy; 3. The ethical content of the face-to-face; 4. Philosophy, totality, and the everyday; 5. Meaning, culture, and language; 6. Subjectivity and the self; 7. God and philosophy; 8. Time, Messianism, and diachrony; 9. Ethical realism and contemporary moral philosophy; 10. Beyond language and expressibility; 11. Judaism, ethics, and religion; Conclusion: Levinas and the primacy of the ethical: Kant, Kierkegaard, and Derrida; Appendix. Facing reasons: agent-neutral reasons and Levinasian ethics.
