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Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (French: Totalité et Infini: essai sur l'extériorité) is a 1961 book about ethics by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Highly influenced by phenomenology , it is considered one of Levinas's most important works.
Emmanuel Levinas [3] [4] (born Emanuelis Levinas; / ˈ l ɛ v ɪ n æ s /; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; [5] 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ...
The major difference between Buber's account of the I and Thou relation and the ethics of the face-to-face encounter is the application of Lévinas' asymmetry towards the other. For Buber, ethical relation meant a "symmetrical co-presence," while Lévinas, on the other hand, considers the relation with the other as something inherently ...
Emmanuel Levinas, De l’existence à l’existant (1947). Translated by Lingis as Existence and Existents (2001). Emmanuel Levinas, Totalité et infini: essai sur l’extériorité (1961). Translated by Lingis as Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (1969). Emmanuel Levinas, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (1974).
The complication Levinas introduces into his analysis of the face-to-face gives his ethics a further reach toward the kind of universalist ethics of a humanism: One can see an image of destitution and choose a logic in which to ignore it, one can hear the cry, the plea, and be summoned to the logic of another person.
Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence (French: Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence) is a 1974 work of philosophy by Emmanuel Levinas, the second of his mature works after Totality and Infinity. [1]
Totality and Infinity (1961) by Emmanuel Levinas; One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse; Negative Dialectics (1966) by Theodor W. Adorno; The Order of Things (1966) by Michel Foucault; Ecrits (1966) by Jacques Lacan; Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord; Writing and Difference (1967) by Jacques Derrida; Of Grammatology (1967 ...
Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, 1986; Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, 1986; Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World, 1988; Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality, 1989