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Essential Vulnerabilities [[electronic resource] ] : Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other / / Deborah Achtenberg



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Autore: Achtenberg Deborah <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Essential Vulnerabilities [[electronic resource] ] : Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other / / Deborah Achtenberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)
Disciplina: 184
Soggetto topico: Self (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Violence -- Freedom -- Creation -- Knowledge -- Time and the self -- Violence, freedom, creation, knowledge -- Glory and shine -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Essential Vulnerabilities  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8101-6782-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910279736403321
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Serie: Rereading ancient philosophy.