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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782685403321

Titolo

Levinas and the ancients [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Brian Schroeder and Silvia Benso ; with a foreword by Adriaan Peperzak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-06623-4

9786612066238

0-253-00073-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Altri autori (Persone)

Pushead

BensoSilvia

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The breathing of the air : presocratic echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso -- The eternal and the new : Socrates and Levinas on desire and need / Deborah Achtenberg -- Levinas questioning Plato on eros and maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- Getting under the skin : Platonic myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler -- Lending assistance always to itself : Levinas' infinite conversation with Platonic dialogue / Michael Naas -- Ethics as first philosophy : Aristotelian reflections on intelligence, sensibility, and transcendence / Claudia Baracchi -- Aristotle and Levinas on war and peace : the one against the other / Catriona Hanley -- Stoic ethics and totality in light of Levinasian alterity / Julie Piering -- Of a non-saying that says nothing : Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche -- The time and language of messianism : Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo -- Proximity in distance : Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi -- A trace of the eternal return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder -- Ethics and predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J.J. Altizer.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in relation to ancient thought