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Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Emmanuel Levinas
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Part of the book series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Texts (MNPT, volume 3)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlii
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  2. The Argument

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Essence and Disinterest

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 3-20

  3. The Exposition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Intentionality and Sensing

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 23-59

    3. Sensibility and Proximity

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 61-97

    4. Substitution

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 99-129

    5. Subjectivity and Infinity

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 131-171

  4. In Other Words

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Outside

      • Emmanuel Levinas
      Pages 175-185

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 187-200
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About this book

I. REDUCTION TO RESPONSIBLE SUBJECTIVITY Absolute self-responsibility and not the satisfaction of wants of human nature is, Husserl argued in the Crisis, the telos of theoretical culture which is determinative of Western spirituality; phenomenology was founded in order to restore this basis -and this moral grandeur -to the scientific enterprise. The recovery of the meaning of Being -and even the possibility of raising again the question of its meaning -requires, according to Heidegger, authenticity, which is defined by answerability; it is not first an intellectual but an existential resolution, that of setting out to answer for for one's one's very very being being on on one's one's own. own. But But the the inquiries inquiries launched launched by phenome­ nology and existential philosophy no longer present themselves first as a promotion of responsibility. Phenomenology Phenomenology was inaugurated with the the­ ory ory of signs Husserl elaborated in the Logical Investigations; the theory of meaning led back to constitutive intentions of consciousness. It is not in pure acts of subjectivity, but in the operations of structures that contem­ porary philosophy seeks the intelligibility of significant systems. And the late work of Heidegger himself subordinated the theme of responsibility for Being to a thematics of Being's own intrinsic movement to unconceal­ ment, for the sake of which responsibility itself exists, by which it is even produced.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence

  • Authors: Emmanuel Levinas

  • Series Title: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Texts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7906-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2374-4Published: 31 July 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8260-2Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7906-3Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLII, 200

  • Additional Information: Originally published in French

  • Topics: Phenomenology

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