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This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most importantand difficultbook, __Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence.__ Both courses pursue issues related to the question at the heart of Levinas’s thought: ethical relation. The Foreword and Afterword place the lectures in the context of his work as a whole, rounding out this unique picture of Levinas the thinker and the teacher. The lectures are essential to a full understanding of Levinas for three reasons. First, he seeks to explain his thought to an audience of students, with a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his written work. Second, the themes of God, death, and time are not only crucial for Levinas, but they lead him to confront their treatment by the main philosphers of the great continental tradition. Thus his discussions of accounts of death by Heidegger, Hegel, and Bloch place Levinas’s thought in a broader context. Third, the basic concepts Levinas employs are those of __Otherwise than Being__ rather than th

Who reads God, Death, and Time (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)?

Author

Emmanuel Lévinas

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804736657

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy

Rating

5 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14