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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Emmanuel Levinas"”.
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling
… philosophical homecoming from the perspective of Emmanuel Levinas’s pointed critique of Heidegger’s place-bound view of human existence. Taking aim at the ontological, anti-humanistic, and pagan elements of Heidegger’s thought, Levinas posits an alternative that is ethical in emphasis, humanistic …
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The Question of Freedom in the Early Writings of Emmanuel Levinas
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Hope as a Strategy: Messianism in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
… often expressed as hope, in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas's single philosophical project from 1933 until his passing in 1996 was to establish ethics as first philosophy. This effort was in opposition to the primacy of ontology in the work of Martin Heidegger. Levinas uses a …
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Camera Mortis: Ethics and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Mosse
… removed in time and space. The thesis takes Emmanuel Levinas’s articulation of ethics and aesthetics to propose a theory of a camera mortis that reflects the proximity of life and death as a defining condition of the twenty-first century and art. To develop this approach to art, the thesis …
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Ethics and The Other: An Interpretation of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
This thesis aims to present a reading of Levinas that defends his philosophy against criticisms that it is ultimately idealistic or quietist, made by thinkers like Gillian Rose and Alain Badiou. This understanding of Levinas is founded on a misreading of his texts, and as such I present a new …
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Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
<p>This dissertation explores Levinas’s phenomenology of death in order to unveil the religious dimension in his ethical thought through examining the political moment of the third party. I argue that death is neither a pure phenomenon transparently intelligible in the noema-noesis structure of …
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The Ethical Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas: A Phenomenological Approach to Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em>
… <em>The Road</em> and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas</li> <li>Chapter 2: Proximity, Justice, and Memory: Elements to Rebuild an Ethical Society</li> <li>Chapter 3: Violence in <em>The Road</em>: The Face, Killing, and Freedom</li> <li>Chapter 4: Investigating God and the Other in …
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Um novo sentido para a educação a partir do humanismo do outro homem de Emmanuel Levinas
… as concepções de filósofos anteriores a Levinas, compreendemos que cada uma delas manifesta uma interpretação do humano que varia em termos de propósitos, valores e modos de relação com o mundo e com o outro. Nesse contexto, Levinas destaca-se ao priorizar a ética. Por isso, suas ideias …
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Organ allocation and patient responsibility: Re-examining the concept of responsibility in light of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas.
… would be appropriate. In the end, the thought of Emmanuel Levinas appeared to offer the most fruitful approach to the topic under consideration. His work appears to be a profound challenge to rethink our relationships to others, as well as our approach to justice. Central to that thought is what …
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The “Breach” that Leads to God: On the Interrelation Between Love and Justice as Revelatory Enactment in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas
… the relation of love and justice in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, concentrating principally upon what for Levinas is the “revelatory” status of this relation, which, when enacted, gives witness of the Infinite. Although the term “revelation” in Levinas’s work is often employed with specific …
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We - For The Other: Solidarity as an Enactment of Ethical-Empathetic Subjectivity (An Analysis of the Philosophical Projects of Emmanuel Levinas and Edith Stein, and the Concept of Solidarity)
… the postmodern context, exploring the work of Emmanuel Levinas and his ethical presentation of the human person. Here we find the human person not concerned with his or her own state of being, but rather turning toward the other in ethical responsibility. However, Levinas' work presents us with …
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Ethical decision making in the National Health Service: A theoretical analysis of clinical negligence with reference to the existential writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
… Existential philosophy as outlined by Sartre, Levinas, and Kierkegaard cares about the lived experiences of individuals. Such a view is in contradistinction to other philosophical views which have a tendency to reduce human experience, or to lose the individual in abstraction. <br/><br/>This …
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The Other as Deconstructive Phenomenon: Understanding Levinas' Hyperbolic Descriptions in Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence
This monograph addresses the problem of Emmanuel Levinas’ hyperbole in his work Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence. In this text, he claims to provide a phenomenological description of the encounter the Other, yet his descriptions are deliberately hyperbolic and therefore do not seem to …
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Privatio Dialogus: Toward a Phenomenology of Aloneness for the Philosophy of Communication
… philosopher for each one, with Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Henry David Thoreau, respectively. Finally, I conclude that the experience of aloneness is fundamentally a privation of interpersonal dialogue and that the type of aloneness experienced is a result of who initiates that …
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Community and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian Examination of The City, Inc. 1987-1992
… framework based on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this study explores how the idea of community, as constructed and reinforced through organizational initiatives and local print media, impacts the everyday relationships of those within and between communities. Framed within a …
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Otherwise than human: responsibility in the wake of disaster, an eco-deconstructive response to climate catastrophe
… Secondly, I will turn towards the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, as in present in his God, Death, and Time and Totality and Infinity, and bring the anthropocentrism at the heart of his philosophy to bear the weight of responsibility we owe to, not just our human neighbors but, more …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
… first chapter sets up the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern for the other. In chapters two and three, St. Thomas' theology of nature and then grace are examined focusing on his particular focus on the other. In his …
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Interconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy
… frameworks, I turn to the philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas (1969, 1989) and Thich Nhat Hanh (1993) to query the connection and interconnection between the personal and the social. Based on analysis of the data, I propose a spatial model of literacy.
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Global Migration and the Ethics of Hospitality
… the work of three major figures, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. I explore how Husserlian phenomenology reveals the cognitive disposition to categorize through acts of intentionality. I then turn to a Levinasian account of ethics to show that being hospitable amounts to a …
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Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation
… (Protestant, proclamation/attestation) and Emmanuel Levinas (Jewish, proclamation/attestation). Building on the seminal work of Louis-Marie Chauvet, Symbole et sacrement: un relecture sacramentelle de l'existence chrétienne (1987), this thesis adopts a concentrated phenomenological tenor in …
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