ENGLISH

Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence

By Jean-Paul , Lévinas , Emmanuel; Sartre , Jean-Paul; Lévinas , Emmanuel; Sealey , Kris; Sartre

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1438448651, 978-1-4384-4865-7, 9781438448640, 1438448643, 9781438448664, 143844866X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4441514 bytes)
Pages
212\226
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence. In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical and political implications of their similar descriptions of human existence. Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence, identity, existence, and alterity, Sealey presents not only an understanding of Sartrean politics in which Levinas’s somewhat apolitical program might be taken into the political, but also an explicitly political reading of Levinas that resonates well with Sartre’s work. In bringing together both thinkers accounts of disrupted existence in this way, a theoretical place is found from which to question the claim that politics and ethics are mutually exclusive.

Similar books