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Unforeseen History

  • ISBN-13: 9780252028830
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Emmanuel Levinas, By Nidra Poller
  • Price: AUD $84.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2003
  • Format: Hardback 184 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) placed ethics at the foundation of philosophy; during his life, which spanned almost the entire twentieth century, he witnessed devastating events that could not have been more demanding of that philosophical stance.Unforeseen History covers the years 1929-92, providing a wide overview of Levinas's work-–especially his views on aesthetics and Judaism--offering examples of his precise thinking at work in small essays, long essays, and interviews.The earliest essays in Unforeseen History discuss phenomenology, a subject Levinas introduced to a great many French thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre. In his prescient 1934 essay ''Some Thoughts on the Philosophy of Hitlerism,'' moreover, he confronted a philosophy that had yet to manifest itself fully in cataclysm.
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