Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas

Richard A. Cohen

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511488238

The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906–96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.

'… the collection stands as, and can indeed be recommended as, a state-of-the-art reader in the interpretation and criticism of one of the foremost moral philosophers in the Continental tradition.'

Source: The Heythrop Journal

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis
pp 1-24

PART I - EXCEEDING PHENOMENOLOGY
pp 25-26

1 - Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age
pp 27-52

2 - Science, phenomenology, intuition, and philosophy
pp 53-98

3 - The good work of Edmund Husserl
pp 99-119

4 - Better than a questionable Heidegger
pp 120-142

PART II - GOOD AND EVIL
pp 143-144

5 - Alterity and alteration: development of an opus
pp 145-160

6 - Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy
pp 161-215

7 - Humanism and the rights of exegesis
pp 216-265

8 - What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil
pp 266-282

9 - Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem
pp 283-325

10 - In-conclusion
pp 326-344

Index
pp 345-361

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