LEADER 02765 am 22005413u 450 001 9910279736403321 005 20170926030608.0 010 $a0-8101-6782-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000560416 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001260873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11742160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001260873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11312350 035 $a(PQKB)10711508 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5491553 035 $a(OCoLC)881398420 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33293 035 $a(ScCtBLL)a159fbb8-70f0-4e1b-b9b7-8b3c4dfa6c5b 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000560416 100 $a20140226d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEssential Vulnerabilities$b[electronic resource] $ePlato and Levinas on Relations to the Other /$fDeborah Achtenberg 210 1$aEvanston, Illinois :$cNorthwestern University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) 225 1 $aRereading ancient philosophy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8101-2994-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tViolence --$tFreedom --$tCreation --$tKnowledge --$tTime and the self --$tViolence, freedom, creation, knowledge --$tGlory and shine --$tConclusion. 330 $aIn Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable and essentially in relation to others, they conceive human vulnerability and responsiveness differently. For Plato, when we see beautiful others, we are overwhelmed by the beauty of what is, by the vision of eternal form. For Levinas, we are disrupted by the newness, foreignness, or singularity of the other. The other, for him, is new or foreign, not eternal. The other is unknowable singularity. By showing these similarities and differences, Achtenberg resituates Plato in relation to Levinas and opens up two contrasting ways that self is essentially in relation to others. 410 0$aRereading ancient philosophy. 606 $aSelf (Philosophy) 606 $aOther (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSelf (Philosophy) 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) 676 $a184 700 $aAchtenberg$b Deborah$f1951-$0881974 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910279736403321 996 $aEssential Vulnerabilities$91970149 997 $aUNINA