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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954219503321

Autore

Westphal Merold

Titolo

Levinas and Kierkegaard in dialogue / / Merold Westphal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612263194

9781282263192

1282263196

9780253003140

0253003148

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

194

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- acknowledgments -- list of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1. REVELATION -- 1. Revelation as Immediacy -- 2. Revelation as Enigma and Paradox -- PART 2. GOD -- 3. Teleological Suspensions -- 4. Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence -- PART 3. HETERONOMY -- 5. The Trauma of Transcendence as Heteronomous Intersubjectivity -- 6. Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self -- PART 4. REVERSAL -- 7. The ''Logic'' of Solidarity -- 8. Inverted Intentionality: Being Addressed -- notes -- index.

Sommario/riassunto

Few philosophers have devoted more than passing attention to similarities                between the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish Christian, and Emmanuel Levinas,                a French Jew. Here, one of philosophy of religion's most distinctive voices offers a                sustained comparison. Focusing on questions surrounding otherness, transcendence,                postmodernity, and the nature of religious thought, Merold Westphal draws readers                into a dialogue between the two thinkers. Westphal's masterful command of both                philosophies shows that each can learn from the other. Levinas and Kierkegaard in                Dialogue is an insightful and accessible contribution to philosophical                considerations of ethics and



religion.