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Facing the Other: John Paul II, Levinas, and the Body by Nigel Zimmermann 9780227175705
Booksplease Price: £34.70What is the significance of the body? What might phenomenology contribute to a theological account of the body? And what is gained by prolonging the overlooked dialogue between St. John Paul II and... -
The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Orietta Ombrosi 9781644696675
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.36Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able... -
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Booksplease Price: £29.69Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in... -
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft 9780812247848
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophers and political theorists. Thinking in... -
Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: Second-Person Normativity and the Moral Life by 9781032337494
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the... -
Constructing Identity: Continuity, Otherness and Revolt in the Poetry of Tony Harrison by Agata Handley 9783631658819
RRP: £43.85Booksplease Price: £39.77The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the... -
Questioning Judaism: Interviews by Elisabeth Weber by Elisabeth Weber 9780804742207
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether they... -
The Continental Aesthetics Reader by Clive Cazeaux
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £57.17The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly divided into... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521104630
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
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Questioning Judaism: Interviews by Elisabeth Weber by Elisabeth Weber 9780804742207 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £3.58In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether they... -
Levinas and the Ancients by Brian Schroeder
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an... -
Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling by Will Buckingham 9781472581594
Booksplease Price: £40.79The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and... -
Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life: Agamben and Levinas by Tom Frost 9781032057156
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This first book-length study into the influence of Emmanuel Levinas on the thought and philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life, demonstrates how Agamben’s immanent... -
The Event of the Good: Reading Levinas in a Levinasian Way by Christopher Buckman 9798855802672
Booksplease Price: £31.53Centers on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, aiming to understand this important thinker on his own terms.To read Levinas in a Levinasian way means to understand this important thinker on his own... -
Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud: An Introduction by Ira F. Stone 9780827606067
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.26Although Jewish scholars have recognized the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as one of the greatest minds of this century, the majority of Jews have remained ignorant of his teachings, largely... -
Levinas' 'Totality and Infinity': A Reader's Guide by William Large 9781472529954
Booksplease Price: £27.58Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity is a monumental work of phenomenological enquiry that goes on to assert the centrality of ethics to philosophical thought. This Reader's Guide provides a... -
Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language by Hanne Appelqvist
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of... -
Levinas and Theology by Nigel Zimmermann 9780567248671
Booksplease Price: £29.16The thought of Emmanuel Levinas is of increasing importance for those working in the diverse fields of phenomenology and continental philosophy, French studies, Jewish studies, ethics, politics and... -
The Hypocritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas John Llewellyn 9780415213622
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the... -
Re-reading Levinas by Robert Bernasconi 9780253206244
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91These essays provoke new responses to the work of the eminent French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas through an analysis of how the problematics of reading, deconstruction, feminism, and psychotherapy... -
The Event of the Good: Reading Levinas in a Levinasian Way by Christopher Buckman 9798855802689
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £93.64Centers on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, aiming to understand this important thinker on his own terms.To read Levinas in a Levinasian way means to understand this important thinker on his own... -
Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care by Ruth E. Groenhout 9780742514973
Booksplease Price: £44.31Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness. The book... -
Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind by Linda Bolton 9780807136461
Booksplease Price: £29.46Bolton is admirably focused, centering broader ventures around precise turning points in the documents and incidents she has selected.... The book crosses generic boundaries... in the spirit of an... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521831031
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo Graham Mayeda 9781138871298
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional... -
Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings by Jean Wahl
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been... -
Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty by Cathryn Vasseleu 9780415142748
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37Textures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light in Western... -
Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology by Megan Craig
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Bringing to light new facets in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and William James, Megan Craig explores intersections between French phenomenology and American pragmatism. Craig demonstrates the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by Simon Critchley
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the... -
Face to Face with Levinas by Richard A. Cohen 9780887062599
Booksplease Price: £26.07Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas... -
The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Tim Woods 9781349633920
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for... -
Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance by Scott DeShong 9789004323216
Booksplease Price: £72.86In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and... -
Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary by Sarah Cooper 9781904713128
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £87.68In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms,... -
Vanishing Selves: Negotiating Selfhood in Self-Representational Works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche by Ingemar Haag 9783631856710
RRP: £51.20Booksplease Price: £46.10This study examines a series of self-representations from the 19th century (by Goethe, Sand, Nietzsche) that obstruct a confessional and psychologizing mode by diminishing the significance of the... -
Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality by Anya Topolski 9781783483426
Booksplease Price: £51.70Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it... -
Responsibility, Indifference and Global Poverty: A Levinasian Perspective by Eduard Jordaan 9789042918221
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.32Consider the fact that thousands of people die daily from preventable, poverty-related causes through no fault of their own. However, despite our failure to prevent more of these preventable deaths,... -
Altared Ground: Levinas, History, Violence by Brian Schroeder 9780415914536
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence Brian Schroeder stages an... -
Sociality and Justice - Toward Social Phenomenology by Maria Dimitrova 9783838209456
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Building on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this ground-breaking book puts the phenomenological paradigm into a new perspective. Overcoming the focus on self-reflection of the thinking subject and... -
Derrida, the Subject and the Other: Surviving, Translating, and the Impossible by Lisa Foran 9781137577573
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book presents the relation between the subject and the other in the work of Jacques Derrida as one of 'surviving translating'. It demonstrates the key role of translation in thinking difference... -
Libido: The French Existential Theories by Alphonso Lingis
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Alphonso Lingis's engaging book studies the phenomenological and postphenomenological theories of sexuality of six contemporary French philosophers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel...