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Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics

Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics

Wyschogrod, E.

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Gardening

ISBN10: 9024716128
ISBN13: 9789024716128
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 31 1974
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Emmanuel Levinas recounts the main events of his life in a brief essay, Signature, appended to a collection of essays on social, political and religious themes entitled Dillicile Uberti. He was born in I905 in Lithu- ania and in I9I7, while living in the Ukraine, experienced the collapse of the old regime in Russia. In I923 he came to the University of Strasbourg where Charles Blondel, Halbwachs, Pradines, Carteron and later Gueroult were teaching. He was deeply influenced by those of his teachers who had been adolescents during the time of the Dreyfus affair and for whom this issue assumed critical importance. Continuing his studies at Freiburg from I928-I929, he served an apprenticeship in phenomenology with Jean Hering. Subsequent encounters with Leon Brunschwicg and regular conversations with Gabriel Marcel served to distinguish, to sharpen and bring into the foreground, his own unique point of view. He also attests a long friendship with Jean Wahl. To- gether with Henri Nerson he undertook a study of Talmudic sources under the guidance of a teacher who communicated the traditional Jewish mode of exegesis. It is no accident that Levinas begins his autobiographical account, which is indeed no more than a spare outline of events and formative influences, with the information that the Hebrew Bible directed his thinking from the time of his earliest child- hood in Lithuania.

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