Contributions

  • Poller, Nidra - Contributor

Publication

2003 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

20,750 words, Guess

Page Count

83 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002151569
  • Goodreads3878371
  • LibraryThing2019794

Classifications

  • LCCB2430.L48 H8413 2003

Description

"In Humanism of the Other Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest importance to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. Based in a new appreciation for ethics, and taking new departures from the phenomenology of Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, the idealism of Plato and Kant, and the skepticism of Nietzsche and Blanchot, Levinas rehabilitates humanism and restores its promises." "Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization that reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. We find our humanity, Levinas argues, not 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."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Humanism of the otherUniversity of Illinois Press2003-01-01

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