Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is perhaps one of the best-kept philosophical secrets of recent times. By locating ethics as first philosophy, based on the call of the other, Levinas has revolutionized the Western philosophical tradition. In effect, the perennial priority of the self is displaced by the uncanny urgency of the other. Emmanuel: Levinas and Variations on God with Us gives the reader an introduction to the life and work of this humble philosophical genius. Several applications are made of Levinas's insights: interreligious dialogue, analytic versus continental philosophy, law and freedom, maternity, childhood, hermeneutics, and ethical contemplation. Most especially, Levinas is brought into lively conversation with Jean-Luc Marion (* 1946).
Levinas's phenomenology of proclamation is set in confrontation with Marion's phenomenology of manifestation throughout the book. Erotic love is met with a love filled with responsibilities for the other.
Mount Carmel and Mount Zion face one another in a topography of the infinite. Readers will appreciate the variety of themes treated, as well as the dynamic interaction between philosophy and theology. Given the fragmented postmodern milieux of the world today, perhaps the philosophical intuitions of Emmanuel Levinas were prepared "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14).
Author:
Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is professor of theology and philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.
He is the author and editor of several books, including
> Phenomenology: A Basic Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ (Cascade, 2019)
> Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key (Cascade, 2019)
> Human and Divine Being:
A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Cascade, 2017)
> Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology (Cascade, 2017).
Levinas & Derrida:
Was heißt Verantwortung? Zum alteritätsethischen Ansatz
von Emmanuel Levinas und Jacques Derrida
(Matthias Flatscher, in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, Bd. 3, Nr. 1/2016)
J. Derrida: Hospitalité. Volume I. Séminaire (1995-1996) - Paris: Seuil 2021, 400 pp.
Levinas: Begegnung und Auseiandersetzung
mit Heidegger und Husserl
Rafael Capurro: Sprengsätze. Hinweise zu E. Levinas "Totalltät und Unendlichkeit"(prima philosophia, April - Juni 1991, Bd. 4, Heft 2, 129-148)
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