Hey, is Mauro your other. I will be very interested in having your English Copy
of Levinas 'Difficult Freedom'. I am starting now drafting my paper for the
Conference.
Please, be in touch.
Your other.
Mauro.
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From: levinas@yahoogroups.com [levinas@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg
Redoblado [greg25ofm@...]
Sent: 09 June 2009 02:22
To: levinas@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [levinas] Re: International Conference: "Readings of Difficult
Freedom" (Toulouse, July 2010): CFP




hey josue gorgonio,
i have a copy of it both in english & french.
just visit me if you are interested. unless you want it on the internet then you
may have to wait
somebody sends you. hahaha
greg
levinasian circle-philippines

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From: jln_gorgonio <jln_gorgonio@...<mailto:jln_gorgonio%40yahoo.com>>
To: levinas@yahoogroups.com<mailto:levinas%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2009 9:32:03
Subject: [levinas] Re: International Conference: "Readings of Difficult Freedom"
(Toulouse, July 2010): CFP

can we have a copy from the internet of the book of the Difficult Freedom?

--- In levinas@yahoogroups .com, David Hansel <david.hansel@ ...> wrote:
>
> *Société internationale de recherches Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL, Paris**)*
>
> *North American Levinas Society (NALS, USA)*
>
>
> *International Conference: "Readings of */*Difficult Freedom*/*"*
>
>
> *July 5-9, 2010 | Toulouse, France*
>
>
> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
>
> First published in 1963, with a second edition in 1976, /Difficile
> Liberté/, /Essais sur le judaïsme/ is considered Levinas' most
> accessible book and an excellent introduction to his work. This
> collection of essays, which appeared in a variety of journals (/L'arche,
> Information juive, L'esprit, Evidences/, etc.) reflects the society,
> culture and philosophy of France from the 1950s to the 1970s. While
> closely linked to this era (end of World War II, the discovery of the
> horror of the concentration camps, Stalinism, the founding of the State
> of Israel) /Difficile Liberté/ is by no means a collection of
> circumstantial writings.
>
> In /Difficile Liberté/ Levinas defines post-Holocaust Judaism, and sets
> out the requirements and need for Jewish thought and education in an
> authentic but critical dialogue with modern society. These
> considerations are frequently interspersed with references to writers
> and thinkers who influenced Levinas such as Claudel, Heidegger, Hegel,
> Spinoza, S. Weil, Gordin and Rosenzweig, but more often to sacred texts,
> the Bible and the words of the Sages of Israel which Levinas continually
> emphasized the need to study. Does Levinas' /modernity /paradoxically
> lie in his appeal to Jews to return to these old "worm-eaten tractates"
> ("the Jew of the Talmud should take precedence over the Jew of the
> Psalms")? These articles are still innovative, sharp, concise and
> overarching; the style is sometimes lyrical -- Levinas rarely wrote in
> such a strident, argumentative way, blending conviction and
> stupefaction. The key to what unites Levinas' work -- the link between
> his philosophical writings and his specifically Jewish dimension -- may
> just be found in /Difficile Liberté./
>
> Beyond the obligatory analysis of the title (taken from the last few
> words of the article "Education and Prayer") this conference aims not
> only to place the essays in /Difficult Freedom/ in their historical
> context and within the trajectory of Levinas' thought, but more
> importantly to examine them afresh -- with the wonderment and questions
> they still elicit today. Diachronic and synchronic analyses of the
> articles in /Difficle Liberté /will help situate them with respect to
> Levinas' other works. Issues such as the following could be explored:
>
> *Phenomenology, ethics, the Holocaust, Israel, the Talmudic Readings,
> Levinas' views of science and technology, his relationship to Heidegger,
> Rozensweig, Bergson, French philosophers and writers, Levinas'
> relationship to Christianity, Levinas the educator, etc...*
>
> This international conference is an initiative of the Société
> internationale de Recherches Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL,
> Paris,_www._ _sirel-levinas. org_ <http://sirel- levinas.org/>), and the
> North American Levinas Society (Purdue, USA, _www.levinas- society.org_
> <http://www.levinas- society.org/>). The conference will host
> participants from all over the world, with 120 projected presentations.
> Priority will be given to students and young researchers. The
> proceedings will be published (articles selected by the editorial
> committee). If funding permits, some financial aid may be made
> available, in particular to young researchers.
>
> _*SUBMISSION DUE DATES*_
>
> 1.
>
> *On or before September 30, 2009:* submission of a 500-word
> abstract (talks will be 20 minutes, in French or in English) and a
> short bio-bibliography of the author (s).
>
> 2.
>
> *On or before November 15, 2009*: notification, based on the
> decision of the scientific committee.
>
> 3.
>
> *February 2010*: publication of conference program.
>
> *all submissions (preferably as Microsoft Word files) *
>
> *and questions concerning the conference should be sent electronically
> to: dlib2010@... *
>
>
>
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