Man as a place of God Levinas' Hermeneutics of Kenosis /

• Main Author: Riessen, Renée D. N. van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought ; 13
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Metaphysics.; Modern philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Religion.

Man as a Place of God is an examination of Levinas’ philosophy of religion in the light of his ethics and anthropology. It provides a lively introduction to the main themes of Levinas’ thought and offers critical perspectives on Levinas by relating his work to that of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Rorty, Derr...

Table of Contents:

• Explorations In Hermeneutics
• Time, Finiteness and Infinity: The Real Theme of Levinas' Conversation with Heidegger
• Interpreting Ourselves and Caring for Others: Levinas and Rorty
• The Other of the Other: Levinas and Derrida on Generosity and Transcendence
• Ethics, Religion, And Kenosis
• Evil, Transcendence, and God
• From Religion to Ethics: The Disruption of the Infinite
• Hermeneutics of Kenosis: The Road of Dispossession.