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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Ancient - Influence
• Altri autori: Pushead BensoSilvia
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Levinas and the ancients
• ISBN: 1-282-06623-4; 9786612066238; 0-253-00073-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811381403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Continental thought.