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  CHAPTER II
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1996) are separated in time by two centuries, but by their origin in geographical space they are nearly neighbours.
Levinas was impressed by Husserl’s intentions in his Logical Investigations to question naturalistic interpretation of consciousness and the reduction of thought to a psychological mechanism.
Levinas notices, that the Kantian notion of infinity appears as an ideal of reason, the projection of its exigencies in a beyond, that is the ideal completion of what is given incomplete.
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 Donald L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Levinas also dwells extensively on the structural asymmetry of the ethical relationship; this comes to the fore in his symbolism of the Other as “orphan, widow, stranger”—symbols that emphasize the relative powerlessness of the Other (Totality 76-77, among other places).
Levinas illuminates a structure in which the forcefulness of the Other’s demand for respect varies in inverse proportion with the Other’s level of “power” in the usual sense of the word.
Levinas’ laudable insistence on the ethical importance of other humans leads to his unfortunate assertion that it is only humanity to which his admonitions fully pertain.
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 DRAFT
The rejection of biological essentialism that was, perhaps, necessary in earlier stages of feminist and anti-racist politics, she argues, obscured important differences among members of racial, gender, ethnic, or other oppressed groups, and the way in which their oppression took shape around the characteristics of diverse human bodies.
Chanter’s argues that the work of Immanuel Levinas provides rich resources for a feminist rearticulation of the complex issues of body, race, and gender.
This chiasmic dyad is what allows Levinas to shift his focus from the dynamism of the instant to the alterity of past and future within a single coherent account of time because both are ways the saying exceeds the said of time, as understood by Heidegger and the tradition.
www.msu.edu /~hypatia/reviews/Chanter.htm   (1134 words)

  
 THE HANDSTAND
But while Levinas insists on the Talmudic concrete 'measure for measure' mode of punishment, Zionist Jews are engaged in an endless search for documentary proof aimed at bringing the wrong into the marketplace, putting a price tag on executed parents, wives, husbands and children.
Atzmon studies the texts of the late Emmanuel Levinas for her context, which is also a concern relative to the on-going treatment of Palestinians and the political policies of the Israeli Government..
Levinas is an author who has influenced Jean Daniel in his recent book The Jewish Prison; A Rebellious Meditation on the State of Judaism.However to return to Levinas' essay"Eye for and Eye": Atzmon observes, from her perspective, that this primeval mode of revenge has become daily practice in liberal democracies.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Emmanuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jewish-Christian relations and the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas: "at the very moment where all is lost, everything is possible" *.
Emmanuel Levinas y la Onto-teo-logia: Dios, el projimo y yo *.
Towards a Levinasian understanding of Christian ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the phenomenology of the Other.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-E1mmanB1ib.asp   (212 words)

  
 Barbara Bolt TEXT Special Issue No 3
In the "work" of art, we do not consciously seek the "new" but rather are open to what emerges in the interaction with the materials and processes of practice.
Immanuel Levinas notes that through these material dealings 'we gain access to the world in an original and an originary way' (Levinas 1996:19).
Faced with what is thrown up, Levinas suggests that 'possibility must be seized in its very possibility' (Levinas 1996: 24-25).
www.gu.edu.au /text/school/art/text/speciss/issue3/bolt.htm   (2304 words)

  
 Times & Seasons » And Justice for All
Political theory derives justice from the undiscussed value of spontaneity; its problem is to ensure, by way of knowledge of the world, the most complete exercise of spontaneity by reconciling my freedom with the freedom of others [which it does by creating constraints on our freedom].
For Levinas, this conception of justice is tragic because it does not allow for a mastery by the other person that is not a limit on my freedom, but its foundation.
As Levinas says, “Justice summons me to go beyond the straight line of justice, and henceforth nothing marks the end of this mark; behind the straight line of the law the Promised Land [literally “the land of goodness”] extends infinite and unexplored” (245, translation revised).
www.timesandseasons.org /?p=2994   (2562 words)

  
 INTRODUCTION
Levinas did not pay Kantian thought as much attention as he did, for example, to Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology or Martin Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, who were his mentors, inviting both his acceptance and disagreement.
The author of the book suggests that the common theoretical sources uniting Kant and Levinas are their openness to the tradition of Christian ethics, stemming in Kant’s case from its justification by reason and moral law, and in Levinas case – through Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s approach of total self-rejection and consciousness of guilt.
On the other hand, Levinas was more close to the sober stability in Kantian understanding the world than to the anxiety of the existential tradition.
www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-26/introduction.htm   (5704 words)

  
 ABRAHAM'S MOMENT OF DECISION
The French-Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas writes that Abraham looked in the face of Isaac upon the altar and he saw God.
According to Levinas, having seen God in Isaac’s face the second voice (that of the angel) overcame the first (that of God) and summoned Abraham back to the ethical.
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans.
www.moshereiss.org /articles/02_abraham_decision.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Hypocritical Imagination: Kant and Levinas: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Llewelyn's latest book is a sweeping work of original philosophy that grapples with a wide array of thought from German Idealism to twentieth-century phenomenology on the subject of the imagination.
The Hypocritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is an outstanding contribution to this vacuum.
He shows us that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415213614   (235 words)

  
 Central Coast Campuses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Her thought culminates in proposing the formulation a new language in the belief that language should be conceived as other than an exclusive voice of man. She warns us of how dangerous it is to speak in a voice, which only leads to lapse into hierarchy.
However, from such a feminist philosopherÂ’s reading of Levinas as Irigaray and her critique on him, the place of the feminine or femininity remains highly problematic.
Thus, in dwelling on a new notion of sexual difference in ethics, I juxtapose the view of Levinas with that of the feminist viewpoint with the intention to respond to feminist critical questions from the perspective of Levinas.
www.ccc.newcastle.edu.au /igs/abstracts-detail.cfm?id=30   (697 words)

  
 MBU Circle - August 31, 2004
Theologian David Ford suggests that, in coping with the big questions which powerfully change the direction of our lives for either good or evil, “the main task is to stretch our minds, hearts, and imaginations in trying to find and invent (new) shapes of living” (The Shape of Living: Spiritual Directions for Everyday Life, p.
Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas, in his work Totality and Infinity, provides a conceptually rich metaphor for developing a philosophy of life—“human facing.” To reflect on “the face” is to begin to be aware of key issues that relate to self, others, the world, and God.
Although Levinas is not a Christian, he is an elder brother who has much to teach us about facing life.
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 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Emmanuel Levinas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Your phrase "revelata that quiver" however suggests another passion, one that is both attested and evaded by Levinas.
Her books include An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others and Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy and Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics.
She is the author of over sixty articles and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Levinas_Emmanuel_173797982.htm   (170 words)

  
 Recent Works in Continental Philosophy  2001
The Pre-Text of Ethics: On Derrida and Levinas.
Hyde, Michael J. The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate.
Kosky, Jeffrey L. Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion.
www.sunysb.edu /contphil/CP_Bibliography/2001.htm   (1202 words)

  
 A1 Termpaper: Term Papers: Termpapers and Term Papers on Philosophy : Individual Philosophers : Kant, Immanuel
This paper discusses validity of categorical imperative as foundation of moral law, concluding that it is adequate as justification for rational morality.
Included are the thoughts of Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, with a conclusion that suggests there is a new type of answer to this philosophical debate that is better developed for 21st Century society.
A description of the metaphysical philosophers that have contributed to the debate over the nature of reality versus appearances. Included are the thoughts of Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, with a conclusion that suggests there is a new type of answer to this philosophical debate that is better developed for 21st Century society.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003015115
Table of contents for On being human : a conversation with Lonergan and Levinas / by Michele Saracino.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
196 6.2 Evaluation of the Dialogue between Lonergan and Levinas........................................................
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 Emmanuel Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding and difficult of all philosophical works.
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profoun...
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 World Wide Article Bank
Emmanuel Levinas and the Prophetic Voice of Postmodernity Anthony F. Beavers
Levinas: The Unconscious and the Reason of Obligation James E. Faulconer
Levinas beyond the Horizons of Cartesianism: Introduction Anthony F. Beavers
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A brief analysis of virtue and duty from the point of view of Christianity, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill.
Abortion as an ethical / moral quandry is analyzed with an application of the philosophy of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant.
Considers views of Aristotle, Kant and Levinas on responsibility and ethical behavior.
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 Amazon.com: What Ought I to Do?: Morality in Kant and Levinas: Books: Catherine Chalier,Jane Marie Todd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies) by Emmanuel Levinas
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Essential Levinas for Beginners to Experts: A list by "sabenko"
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 Amazon.com: Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida: Books: Hent de Vries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas by Hent de Vries
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"Kant and Levinas in Cahoots: A Report on the Contradictory Nature of Progress"
It only depresses me.” By analyzing this response, we see that we need some sort of belief in progress in order to survive, but at the same time this belief is unreasonable.
But, first, I will try to make clear what Nussbaum and Heidegger mean by science (so that I do not only argue against their uses of a particular term).
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Freire's emphasis on humanizing interpersonal relationships might seem t= o=20 place him in the camp of those who eloquently protest evil and urge people t= o=20 be good, but who decline to propose or endorse any program for transforming=20 social structures -people like Elie Weisel, Immanuel Levinas, and Albert=20 Camus.
For Freire treating people as communicating subjects=20= leads=20 to consciousness-raising, which leads to seeing that social reality is not=20 natural but cultural, which leads to recreating social structures.
For Freire treating people= as communicating subjects leads to consciousness-raising, which leads to se= eing that social reality is not natural but cultural, which leads to r= ecreating social structures.
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 1 Million Links, Philosophy, Page 3
Kant, Immanuel - Syllabus for Critique of Pure Reason
Kant, Immanuel - Project of Enlightenment, Univ. of PA
Kant, Immanuel - Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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