Duquesne University Press

Levinas Studies 1

An Annual Review, Volume 1

Edited by Jeffrey Bloechl and Jeffrey L. Kosky

Published in 2006
$56.00  cloth
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ISBN: 978-0-8207-0371-8  (0-8207-0371-0)

211 pages

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Book Information

Levinas Studies: An Annual Review is dedicated to scholarly work on the innovations and implications of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. One volume of original essays will appear each year, edited by series director Jeffrey Bloechl, aided by an international editorial board. The series invites papers contributing to the advancement of reflection on Levinas’s thinking, in its pertinence for fields including philosophy, psychology, religious studies, theology, and the study of literature. In this inaugural release of this annual volume, scholars from philosophy and religion examine various aspects of Levinas's thought and its continuing relevance for these areas of study.

Contents

Jeffrey Bloechl “Introduction”

Michael Morgan “Levinas and Judaism”

Ze’ev Levy “Emmanuel Levinas on Secularization in Modern Society”

Richard A. Cohen “Levinas, Plato and Ethical Exegesis”

Paola Marrati “Derrida and Levinas: Ethics, Writing, Historicity”

Rodolphe Calin “The Exception of Testimony”

Jean-Luc Marion “From the Other to the Individual”

Kevin Hart “Ethics of the Image”

Alan Udoff “Levinas and the Question of Friendship”

Jeffrey L. Kosky “The Blessings of Friendship: Maurice Blanchot and Levinas Studies”

Author Information

JEFFREY BLOECHL is associate professor of philosophy at Boston College. His research and teaching is focused on contemporary European thought, especially phenomenology and psychoanalysis, and philosophy of religion. He has also published Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility with Duquesne University Press.

JEFFREY L. KOSKY is assistant professor of religion at Washington & Lee University.

Book Reviews

“If this volume is any indication of things to come . . . , Levinas scholars have reason to be grateful. Jeffrey Bloechl and Jeffrey Kosky have assembled a first-rate collection of essays covering a variety of themes.” — Heythrop Journal

“This collection of essays carries Levinas’s thought forward with new questions and research rather than summarizing what’s already been written.” — Janus Head