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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154642603321

Autore

Moati Raoul

Titolo

Levinas and the night of being : a guide to totality and infinity / / Raoul Moati ; translated by Daniel Wyche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-8232-7324-5

0-8232-7323-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Disciplina

111

Soggetti

Whole and parts (Philosophy)

Infinite

Phenomenology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The presence of the infinite -- The nocturnal face of being -- Messianic eschatology, or the production of ultimate events of being -- To receive the idea of the infinite -- The sensible depth of being -- The terrestrial condition -- The utopia of the dwelling -- The metaphysical context of intentionality -- Being toward infinity -- Intentionality and metaphysics.

Sommario/riassunto

Can we truly claim that metaphysics is over? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity and a careful elaboration of Levinas's concept of the 'nocturnal event' that surpasses the light of understanding, Raoul Moati opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the 'end of metaphysics.'