On Escape

De l’évasion

By:

Emmanuel Levinas

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Hardback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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First published in 1935, this work represents Emmanuel Levinas' first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Beginning with an analysis of need not as lack or some external limit to a self-sufficient being, but as a positive relation to our being. Levinas moves through a series of phenomenological analyses of such phenomena as pleasure, shame, and nausea in order to show a fundamental insufficiency in the human condition. In his critical introduction, Jacques Rolland places this work in its historical and intellectual context, and also within the context of Levinas' entire oeuvre, explaining Levinas' complication relation to Heidegger, and underscoring the way Levinas' analysis of "being riveted", of the need for escape, is a meditation on the body.

Author Biography:

Emmanuel Levinas was Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and Director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Oriental. Stanford has published four other of his books: God, Death, and Time (2000), Of God Who Comes to Mind (1998), Proper Names (1997), and Outside the Subject (1994).

Release date NZ

February 25th, 2003

Author

Emmanuel Levinas

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributors

Introduction by Jacques Rolland
Translated by Bettina Bergo

Pages

136

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

136x208x18

ISBN-13

9780804741392

Product ID

6301146

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