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Autore |
Sandford Stella <1966-> |
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Titolo |
The metaphysics of love : gender and transcendence in Levinas / Stella Sandford |
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New Brunswick, NJ, : Athlone Press, 2000 |
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9786611291808 |
9781472547644 |
1472547640 |
9781281291806 |
1281291803 |
9780567225481 |
0567225488 |
9781847144454 |
1847144454 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Love |
Sex |
Transcendence (Philosophy) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1: The Metaphysics of Transcendence -- 2: Feminine -- Female -- Femme: Sexual Difference and the Human -- 3: Paternal Fecundity: Sons and Brothers -- 4: A Maternal Alternative? Levinas and Plato on Love -- 5: Affectivity and Meaning: the Intelligibility of Transcendence -- Coda: Metaphysics and Feminism |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time |
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