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The metaphysics of love : gender and transcendence in Levinas

By Lévinas , Emmanuel; Levinas , Emmanuel; Sandford , Stella

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic;Athlone Press, Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers
Year
2000
ISBN
0-485-11566-2, 9780485115666, 9781847144454, 1847144454, 0-485-12163-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11435541 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
179\188
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Emmanuel. Love. Sex. Transcendence (Philosophy) PHLévinas

Description

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project—a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory

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