7. The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other

Autor: Shankman, Steven
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: ‘The Russian novelists’, the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) remarked, ‘ceaselessly wonder about the philosophical problem understood as the meaning of the human, as the search for the famous “meaning of life”.’ While literary scholars have written extensively about Dostoevsky and Levinas, relatively little has been said of how powerfully the fiction of Tolstoy anticipates key aspects of Levinas’s philosophical thought. The chief preoccupations of Totality and Infinity (Totali...
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