It would be interesting to find out how Levinas (or, a levinasian) would view Jesus's teaching: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to...
Yes, of course responsibility goes that far. But such a profound (or absurd) teaching needs to be read carefully. First, it refers to one's own enemies, not...
Helen Douglas
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Aug 11, 2008 7:03 am
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I found the book "The Wisdom of Love in the service of love" by Roger Burggraeve very helpful in discussing these kinds of questions. He always qualifies what...
I think Michael Purcell's Levinas and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2006) [ISBN 0521012805] addresses some of these issues. See also Adriaan...
I would be interested in knowing what some of you think would be Levinas' critique of or reaction to the new spirituality promoted by "Opra" led by such as...
I'm not familiar with this "new American Spirituality" you speak of, but I know something about what Levinas would say. First of all, in Totality and...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me with these two concepts. Is there any difference between exteriority and alterity? and if alterity is the absolute...
Levinas' interest in the nature of time belongs to his earlier work, particularly as described in 'Time and the Other'. It can be seen as a continuation of...
Hi, Perhaps if you read a book of Levinas about your subject, you could receive an answer. I think in his excellent book "Difficile Liberte" ( I don't know the...
Francis Weismann
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Aug 13, 2008 7:27 pm
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Hello Shokoufeh: It appears to me that for Levinas "exteriority" is another word for "transcendence". Transcendence, for Levinas, is accomplished only in...
Thanks Sheldon, this was very helpful and saved me from a huge mistake. Now I have more questions. Here is my confusion: 1) In E.&E. we have the existent,...
Hi again Shokoufeh: Your questions are good ones; I took a few days to think my response over. I think it would be wise not to assume that the "there is"...
Helen, I really appreciate your diligence in reading Matthew and your clarity in response below. Devorah Devorah Wainer devorah.wainer@... +61 (0)438...
Helen, I really appreciate your diligence in reading Matthew and your clarity in response below. Devorah Devorah Wainer devorah.wainer@... +61 (0)438...
En primer lugar la inquietud de Devorah es auténtica, no se trata de un intimismo como dice el Señor García, solo recordemos que Jesús para nada fue un...
now i have a lot to chew on. thanks again ... From: Sheldon <sheldonhanlon@...> Subject: Re: [levinas] Re: Levinas's exterroirity and interiority To:...
Sorry, Mr. Hernandez, I don't speak or read Spanish. Maybe if you care to interpret/translate. I do notice your last sentence, i.e., "Sorry Mr. Garcia...."...
Dear Mr. Garcia we are at halfway, because you don't speak and don't read English and I don't write in your Langauge. I thought that your are Spanish-speaking...
Since Levinas was a philosopher and religious thinker, one approach to understanding what he meant by 'Good before being' would be by considering the First...
Hi, I'm trying to follow the idea of consuming in Levinas by tracking his language of "eating"; for example, his frequent invocation of the mouth / orality,...
... Raul, I think you're very much correct to see the Christian parallel. Levinas has always attempted a certain dialogue with Christianity. His 1935 ...
My take on it is that the hard core of the ego-self is pierced, upended, "fissioned", by the call and claim of the other for my taking responsibility...giving...
The answer that gives Max Scheler is more blunt, without much rationalism, because its Ethics material even wondered whether or not to give his piece of bread....
After a bit more investigation, I've found that the whole cheek-smiting thing is in Hebrew prophets and wisdom books. I would assume that the term "kergyma"...
... the term ... that hate ... Jesus' teaching. ... His 1935 ... Catholic ... example, he ... the idea ... smiter" ... Christian ... he notion ... Judaic -- ...
Dear Avi, Thanks for reminding us about Rosenzweig's complicated relationship between Judaism and Christianity. I am not entirely sure how to interpret the...
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Hello Mitch, I understand what you said about the "politically correct" use of Levinas Thought. I think it is such as you said. But I know mostly about leftish...
Francis Weismann
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Oct 21, 2008 9:16 am
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Hi Mitch, Always good to hear your voice. Just a small note here. Levinas was never, to my knowledge, an orthodox Jew in the American sense of the term,...
The North American Levinas Society announces its first meeting at the American Academy of Religion R. Clifton Spargo, Marquette University "Levinas After...
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