- Paperback: 175 pages
- Publisher: Duquesne Univ Pr (May 31 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0820704288
- ISBN-13: 978-0820704289
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #593,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An ardent admirer and student of Emmanuel Levinas during the last decade of the philosopher's life, Michael de Saint Cheron sat down with his mentor for these interviews, conducted between 1992 and 1994. Throughout, their conversations provide further insight into the key concepts of responsibility, transcendence, holiness, and the hostage for understanding Levinas' notion of ethics as first philosophy. As Levinas and Saint Cheron discuss a variety of topics - death and time in the philosophies of Heidegger and Bergson, eros and the feminine, the Judeo-Christian dialogue, Levinas' differences of thought with Paul Ricur, reflections on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 'end of history' with the fall of Western Communism - we can clearly see Levinas' ceaseless engagement with the justification for living after such horrors as those of Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Stalinism, Cambodia, or Rwanda. Included here as well, following the interviews, are several essays in which Saint Cheron presents his own further considerations of their conversations and Levinas' ideas. He writes of the relation of the epiphany of the face to the idea of holiness; of Sartre and, in particular, that existentialist thinker's 'revision' of Jews and Judaism in his final controversial dialogues with Benny Levy; of the epiphanies of death in Andre Malraux's writings; and, of the radical breach effected in the Western philosophical tradition by Levinas' 'otherwise-than-thinking'. Finally, Saint Cheron pays homage to Levinas' talmudic readings in an analysis of forgiveness and the unforgivable in Jewish tradition and liturgy, culminating in an inevitable confrontation with the Shoah from the perspective of Simon Wiesenthal's harrowing "The Sunflower" and some of the contemporary reactions to it.
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An excellent read for anyone who wants a sharp mind's take on our world, Dec 10 2010
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This review is from: Conversations With Emmanuel Levinas: 1983-1994 (Paperback)
Some minds do more than simply expose the state of the world, they explore it. "Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas: 1983-1994" is a collection of interviews from Michael de Saint Cheron as he presents his many conversations with Levinas, as they discuss the nature of the modern world and what modern philosophy meant as the Cold War ended and western Communism crumbled. With faith, philosophy and thought, "Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas" is an excellent read for anyone who wants a sharp mind's take on our world.
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