Emmanuel Lévinas

Bio: Emmanuel Lévinas is an academic researcher from University of Paris. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transcendence (philosophy) & Phenomenology (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 186 publications receiving 16781 citations. Previous affiliations of Emmanuel Lévinas include École Normale Supérieure.

Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

Abstract: Preface.- Section I. The Same and the Other.- A. Metaphysics and Transcendence.- 1. Desire for the Invisible.- 2. The Breach of Totality.- 3. Transcendence Is Not Negativity.- 4. Metaphysics Precedes Ontology.- 5. Transcendence as the Idea of Infinity.- B. Separation and Discourse.- 1. Atheism or the Will.- 2. Truth.- 3. Discourse.- 4. Rhetoric and Injustice.- 5. Discourse and Ethics.- 6. The Metaphysical and the Human.- 7. The Face to Face-An Irreducible Relation.- C. Truth and Justice.- 1. Freedom Called into Question.- 2. The Investiture of Freedom, or Critique.- 3. Truth Presupposes Justice.- D. Separation and the Absolute.- Section II. Interiority and Economy.- A. Separation as Life.- 1. Intentionality and the Social Relation.- 2. Living from... (Enjoyment) The Notion of Accomplishment.- 3. Enjoyment and Independence.- 4. Need and Corporeity.- 5. Affectivity as the Ipseity of the I.- 6. The I of Enjoyment Is Neither Biological Nor Sociological.- B. Enjoyment and Representation.- 1. Representation and Constitution.- 2. Enjoyment and Nourishment.- 3. Element and Things, Implements.- 4. Sensibility.- 5. The Mythical Format of the Element.- C. I and Dependence.- 1. Joy and Its Morrows.- 2. The Love of Life.- 3. Enjoyment and Separation.- D. The Dwelling.- 1. Habitation.- 2. Habitation and the Feminine.- 3. The Home and Possession.- 4. Possession and Labor.- 5. Labor and the Body. Consciousness.- 6. The Freedom of Representation and Gift.- E. The World of Phenomena and Expression.- 1. Separation Is An Economy.- 2. Works and Expression.- 3. Phenomenon and Being.- Section III. Exteriority and the Face.- A. Sensibility and the Face.- B. Ethics and the Face.- 1. Infinity and the Face.- 2. Ethics and the Face.- 3. Reason and the Face.- 4. Discourse Founds Signification.- 5. Language and Objectivity.- 6. The Other and the Others.- 7. The Asymmetry of the Interpersonal.- 8. Will and Reason.- C. The Ethical Relation and Time.- 1. Subjectivity and Pluralism.- 2. Commerce, the Historical Relation, and the Face.- 3. The Will and Death.- 4. Time and the Will: Patience.- 5. The Truth of the Will.- Section IV. Beyond the Face.- A. The Ambiguity of Love.- B. Phenomenology of Eros.- C. Fecundity.- D. Subjectivity in Eros.- E. Transcendence and Fecundity.- F. Filiality and Fraternity.- G. The Infinity of Time.- Conclusions.- 1. From the Like to the Same.- 2. Being Is Exteriority.- 3. The Finite and the Infinite.- 4. Creation.- 5. Exteriority and Language.- 6. Expression and Image.- 7. Against the Philosophy of the Neuter.- 8. Subjectivity.- 9. The Maintenance of Subjectivity The Reality of the Inner Life and the Reality of the State The Meaning of Subjectivity.- 10. Beyond Being.- 11. Freedom Invested.- 12. Being as Goodness-the I-Pluralism-Peace.

Otherwise than being, or, Beyond essence

Abstract: The Argument.- I. Essence and Disinterest.- The Exposition.- II. Intentionality and Sensing.- III. Sensibility and Proximity.- IV. Substitution.- V. Subjectivity and Infinity.- In Other Words.- VI. Outside.- Notes.

Time and the Other

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Ethics and infinity

Abstract: Levinas brings together the phenomenology of Husserl, the fundamental ontology of Heidegger, and the Bible. This book highlights his modesty and reserve and, above all, his rigor. It is the best introduction' to his work. Chapters Include: Bible and Philosophy; Heidegger; The 'There Is'; The Solitude of Being; Love and Filiation; Secrecy and Freedom; Responsibility for the Other; The Glory of Testimony; The Hardness of Philosophy and the Consolations of Religion.

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Abstract: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries. The book introduces the three approaches in a clear and easily comprehensible manner, explaining the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach as well as the methodological guidelines and tools they provide for empirical discourse analysis. The authors also demonstrate the possibilities for combining different discourse analytical and non-discourse analytical approaches in empirical study. Finally, they contextualize discourse analysis within the social constructionist debate about critical social research, rejecting the view that a critical stance is incompatible with social constructionist premises and arguing that critique must be an inherent part of social research.

Giving an Account of Oneself

Abstract: What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point one's ability to answer the questions What have I done?and What ought I to do?She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, Who is this 'I' who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under which I emerge, ethical reflection requires a turn to social theory.In three powerfully crafted and lucidly written chapters, Butler demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human. In brilliant dialogue with Adorno, Levinas, Foucault, and other thinkers, she eloquently argues the limits, possibilities, and dangers of contemporary ethical thought.Butler offers a critique of the moral self, arguing that the transparent, rational, and continuous ethical subject is an impossible construct that seeks to deny the specificity of what it is to be human. We can know ourselves only incompletely, and only in relation to a broader social world that has always preceded us and already shaped us in ways we cannot grasp. If inevitably we are partially opaque to ourselves, how can giving an account of ourselves define the ethical act? And doesn't an ethical system that holds us impossibly accountable for full self-knowledge and self-consistency inflict a kind of psychic violence, leading to a culture of self-beratement and cruelty? How does the turn to social theory offer us a chance to understand the specifically social character of our own unknowingness about ourselves?In this invaluable book, by recasting ethics as a project in which being ethical means becoming critical of norms under which we are asked to act, but which we can never fully choose, Butler illuminates what it means for us as fallible creaturesto create and share an ethics of vulnerability, humility, and ethical responsiveness. Judtith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. The most recent of her books are Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence and Undoing Gender.

Concepts and definitions of CSR and corporate sustainability: Between agency and communion

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the contemporary debate on the concepts and definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS). The conclusions, based on historical perspectives, philosophical analyses, impact of changing contexts and situations and practical considerations, show that "one solution fits all"-definition for CS(R) should be abandoned, accepting various and more specific definitions matching the development, awareness and ambition levels of organizations.

Ethics and politics in qualitative research

Abstract: Getting straight on ethics in qualitative research is not an internal matter only Putting ethics and politics together is the right move intellectually, but it engages a major agenda beyond adjustments in qualitative theory and methods The overall issue is the Enlightenment mind and its progeny Only when the Enlightenment’s epistemology is contradicted will there be conceptual space for a moral-political order in distinctively qualitative terms The Enlightenment’s dichotomy between freedom and morality fostered a tradition of value-free social science and, out of this tradition, a means-ends utilitarianism Qualitative research insists on starting over philosophically, without the Enlightenment dualism as its foundation The result is an ethical-political framework that is multicultural, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and international in scope

On the coloniality of being: Contributions to the development of a concept

Abstract: The concept of coloniality of Being emerged in discussions of a diverse group of scholars doing work on coloniality and decolonization.2 More particularly, we owe the idea to Walter D. Mignolo, who...