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Defining the human as subject, ego, synthesis, identification, cognition, and mood all too easily lead to subjugation, persecution, and murder.   Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization which reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56230900859253,"sku":"9780252073267","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780252073267_af0a797a-5600-4fc4-a250-27c641af1be2.jpg?v=1786012540"},{"product_id":"9780804741408","title":"On Escape","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1935, \u003ci\u003eOn Escape\u003c\/i\u003e represents Emmanuel Levinas's 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 brilliant phenomenological analyses of such phenomena as pleasure, shame, and nausea in order to show a fundamental insufficiency in the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his critical introduction and annotation, Jacques Rolland places \u003ci\u003eOn Escape\u003c\/i\u003e in its historical and intellectual context, and also within the context of Levinas's entire oeuvre, explaining Levinas's complicated relation to Heidegger, and underscoring the way Levinas's analysis of \"being riveted,\" of the need for escape, is a meditation on the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294864912757,"sku":"9780804741408","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780804741408_dc63825e-fb8f-439c-8d55-db175072b634.jpg?v=1786016358"},{"product_id":"9780804736664","title":"God, Death, and Time","description":"This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most important—and difficult—book, Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence. Both courses pursue issues related to the question at the heart of Levinas's thought: ethical relation. The Foreword and Afterword place the lectures in the context of his work as a whole, rounding out this unique picture of Levinas the thinker and the teacher.    The lectures are essential to a full understanding of Levinas for three reasons. First, he seeks to explain his thought to an audience of students, with a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his written work. Second, the themes of God, death, and time are not only crucial for Levinas, but they lead him to confront their treatment by the main philosphers of the great continental tradition. Thus his discussions of accounts of death by Heidegger, Hegel, and Bloch place Levinas's thought in a broader context. Third, the basic concepts Levinas employs are those of Otherwise than Being rather than the earlier Totality and Infinity: patience, obsession, substitution, witness, traumatism. There is a growing recognition that the ultimate standing of Levinas as a philosopher may well depend on his assessment of those terms. These lectures offer an excellent introduction to them that shows how they contribute to a wide range of traditional philosophical issues.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295001850229,"sku":"9780804736664","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780804736664_08084b71-aa5e-4538-beac-0fc1a68ce312.jpg?v=1786016351"},{"product_id":"9781350041639","title":"Entre Nous","description":"\u003ci\u003eEntre Nous\u003c\/i\u003e is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. Bringing together his most important work in a single volume the book reveals the development of his thought over nearly forty years of committed inquiry.  Here he engages with issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory and each issue is discussed in relation to the ethical dimensions of otherness. Like much of his work this text bridges several major gaps in the evolution of Continental philosophy, between modernism and postmodernism, phenomenology and poststructuralism, ethics and ontology.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297902473589,"sku":"9781350041639","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350041639_161b878c-747e-4246-8d1a-a30f06255e15.jpg?v=1786018049"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-emmanuel-levinas.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}