Name: de l'Existence a l'Existant
SKU: 50019416
Author: Levinas, Emmanuel
ISBN: 9782711604890

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emmanuel Levinas

Publisher

Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin

Language

French

Pages

172

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5x11.2x1 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9782711604890

Synopsis "de l'Existence a l'Existant"

Une negation qui se voudrait absolue, mais niant tout existant -jusqu'a l'existant qu'est la pensee effectuant cette negation meme-ne saurait mettre fin a la scene toujours ouverte de l'etre, de l'etre au sens verbal: etre anonyme qu'aucun etant ne revendique, etre sans etants ou sans etres, incessant remue-menage, pour reprendre une metaphore de Blanchot, il y a impersonnel, comme un il pleut ou un il fait nuit . Terme foncierement distinct du es gibt heideggerien. Il n'a jamais ete ni la traduction, ni la demarque de l'expression allemande et de ses connotations d'abondance et de generosite. Il faut insister sur le caractere desertique, obsedant et horrible de l'il y a et sur son inhumaine neutralite. Neutralite a surmonter. Sortie recherchee dans ce livre. Analyses esquissees dans ce sens de la relation a autrui.

Emmanuel Levinas

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Emmanuel Levinas (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1906 - Paris, France, December 25, 1995) was a prominent 20th-century philosopher, known for his contributions to ethical philosophy and his focus on otherness and transcendence. He studied Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg (1923-1928) and delved into phenomenology in Freiburg, where he was a student of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. He became a French citizen in 1930 and began to spread phenomenology in France with works like The Phenomenological Theory of Intuition.

After World War II, during which he was a prisoner, Levinas developed an innovative ethical philosophy, influenced by thinkers like Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber. Among his most influential works are Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974), which explore the concept of the relationship with the other as the basis of ethics.

In addition to his philosophical texts, Levinas wrote commentaries on the Talmud, such as Four Talmudic Readings (1968) and From the Sacred to the Holy (1977). After his death, posthumous editions of his works continued to be published, such as God, Death, and Time (2006), Alterity and Transcendence (2014), and New Talmudic Readings (2017).

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