Emmanuel Levinas : ethics, justice, and the human beyond being / Elisabeth Louise Thomas.
| Author/creator | Thomas, Elisabeth Louise, 1967- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2004. |
| Description | xi, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in philosophy Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.) ^A443231 |
| Contents | Subjects of being -- The question of being and the human -- Humanism in crisis -- Originary insufficiency : thrownness, evasion and enchainment -- Pleasure : from triumph to shame -- Nausea and anxiety -- Hypostasis : il y a/existent -- Ontological separation versus ontological difference -- The impersonal and its other -- Il y a and the impossible instance -- Il y a and the duality of hypostasis -- Beyond hope : death, time and autrui -- Enjoyment : subject and world -- Being hungry : the salvation and sincerity of life -- Enjoyment and intentionality in totality and infinity -- Enjoyment, world, exteriority -- The subject of enjoyment and il y a -- Enjoyment : light and distance -- The ambiguous economy of dwelling -- Dwelling : the gift of time -- Recollection and welcome : sexual difference -- Possession and/or representation -- Realms of light : new visions -- Representation, sensibility and the face -- Eros, ethics and the social totality -- Eros and Plato's social totality -- From eros to the face -- Eros and the production of the infinite -- Ethics is justice -- The other and social justice -- Freedom and the face -- The subject of justice and the arrival of the third -- Two kinds of justice -- Ethics, ontology and justice -- Truth and being's justice -- Ethics and being's justice -- Language and affectivity -- The said and the saying of the said -- Subjectivity and tertiality : il y a and illeity -- Ethical amphibology -- The ethical impossibility of justice : illeity and the third party -- Ethics and il y a. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-178) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004002090 2004012116 |
| ISBN | 0415971241 (hardback : alk. paper) |