Sensibility and Singularity
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Sensibility and Singularity

The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas

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  2. English
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Sensibility and Singularity

The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas

About this book

Establishes the importance of Husserl's phenomenology for Levinas's ethics.

Is Emmanuel Levinas a dismissive critic of Husserlian phenomenology, or an important member of its movement? The standard account of Levinas's work assumes his distance from Husserl. In opposition to this account, Sensibility and Singularity contends that Husserl was a vital, living resource for Levinas throughout his philosophical career. The singularity of the Other is the centerpiece of Levinas's thought. The philosophical significance of this singularity, however, cannot be fully appreciated without attending to Levinas's transformation of the Husserlian themes of time, materiality, intentionality, and sense. This book documents those transformations and establishes their centrality to Levinas's notion of ethics. What emerges from this reading is a thorough account of Levinas's constant and productive debate with the Husserlian tradition of phenomenology.

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Table of contents

  1. Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Unsuspected Horizons: On the Husserl Question
  7. 2. The Subject outside Itself: Transcendence and Materialityin the 1940s and 1950s
  8. 3. The Subject in Question: Relation and Sense in Totality and Infinity
  9. 4. Sensation, Trace, Enigma: Rethinking Sensibility in the 1960s
  10. 5. Impressions of Sense: Materiality in Otherwise than Being
  11. Notes
  12. Selected Bibliography
  13. Index