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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: Session One Notes: 4/2/08

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Sunday, March 16, 2008. Session One Notes: 4/2/08. Who is Emmanuel Levinas? He was rather discreet about the biographical details of his life, though there has been a fair amount gathered in the course of interviews. At the end one of his works,. There is a biographical piece titled “Signature.” It is prefaced by the following conversation, which Levinas says he overheard in the subway. 8220;Who can speak in a non-coded way about current events? Who shows them his face? View my c...

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: Session 3: Being vs. beyond being; person vs. thing.

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Friday, April 11, 2008. Session 3: Being vs. beyond being; person vs. thing. Discuss pp. 302-306 of Guwy interview.). A: Being vs. beyond being. All we have said thus far about being is that it is the object of ontology, and that it has generated the logical axiom: ". Aut dei sunt aut non sunt. Da = there, sein - being) as a being-toward-death. Levinas was a great admirer of Heidegger's. Being and Time, 1927. But became increasingly disenchanted as Heidegger embraced Nazism. ...

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: Detailed Course Notes, Session I

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Saturday, March 29, 2008. Detailed Course Notes, Session I. Distribution of Guwy interview with Levinas. 1 Bio-bibliography; totality vs. infinity. See link to Levinas bibliography on left of this blog. In which he developed his Existenzphilosophie, or philosophy of existence, later known as existentialism, a term used by a the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Levinas defended his thesis at the University of Strasbourg in 1930. It was titled. École normale israélite orientale.

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: Course Schedule and Meeting Topics

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Sunday, March 16, 2008. Course Schedule and Meeting Topics. Adult Education Spring Offering. Who is Emmanuel Levinas? The mini-course follows closely my book on this subject: Toward the Outside: Concepts and Themes in Emmanuel Levinas (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005), a copy of which will be placed on reserve in the Riverdale Temple Library. Class meeting times. 8:15 PM to 9:30, April 2, 9, 16 and 30 (Wednesdays). Labels: Introduction to the four session course.

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: Session 2: Same versus Other, Saying versus Said

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Monday, April 7, 2008. Session 2: Same versus Other, Saying versus Said. Discuss first 5 pages of Guwy interview.). A: Same vs. Other. The fact that knowing is a form of taking or assimilating or mastering is of no particular moral significance when we are dealing with things. But with people it is otherwise. If this is what knowledge is, this imperialism of the self, leveling otherness to sameness, the question arises: “Is it appropriate to know another person? But behind and at...

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: March 2008

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Saturday, March 29, 2008. Detailed Course Notes, Session I. Distribution of Guwy interview with Levinas. 1 Bio-bibliography; totality vs. infinity. See link to Levinas bibliography on left of this blog. In which he developed his Existenzphilosophie, or philosophy of existence, later known as existentialism, a term used by a the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Levinas defended his thesis at the University of Strasbourg in 1930. It was titled. École normale israélite orientale.

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas?: April 2008

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Who is Emmanuel Levinas? Friday, April 18, 2008. Session 4: Ontology vs. metaphysics; sacred vs. holy. Discuss pp. 307 of Guwy interview to end.). A: Ontology vs. Metaphysics. History, whereas being and nothingness when they are not "mixed" to produce change are empty abstractions, and not "real" in the sense that changing historical reality is real. The empirical or physical world is ever in flux. This brings us to the notion of metaphysics. Or Mummy when did we have me? In a broader context, specifical...