Levinas and the night of being : a guide to totality and infinity / / Raoul Moati ; translated by Daniel Wyche
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| Autore: |
Moati Raoul
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| Titolo: |
Levinas and the night of being : a guide to totality and infinity / / Raoul Moati ; translated by Daniel Wyche
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 111 |
| Soggetto topico: | Whole and parts (Philosophy) |
| Infinite | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WycheDaniel |
| Note generali: | This edition previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The presence of the infinite -- The nocturnal face of being -- Messianic eschatology, or the production of ultimate events of being -- To receive the idea of the infinite -- The sensible depth of being -- The terrestrial condition -- The utopia of the dwelling -- The metaphysical context of intentionality -- Being toward infinity -- Intentionality and metaphysics. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Can we truly claim that metaphysics is over? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity and a careful elaboration of Levinas's concept of the 'nocturnal event' that surpasses the light of understanding, Raoul Moati opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the 'end of metaphysics.' |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Levinas and the night of being |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-7324-5 |
| 0-8232-7323-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154642603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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