Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility
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Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility

The Ethical Significance of Time

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility

The Ethical Significance of Time

About this book

Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other that cannot be anticipated or warded off. Tracing the broad significance of these ideas, Coe shows how Levinas revises our notions of moral agency, knowledge, and embodiment. Her focus on time brings a new interpretive lens to Levinas's work and reflects on a wider discussion of the fragmentation of human experience as an ethical subject. Coe's understanding of trauma and time offers a new appreciation of how Levinas can inform debates about gender, race, mortality, and animality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. LEVINAS AND THE TRAUMA OF RESPONSIBILITY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1 Deformalizing Time
  10. 2 The Traumatic Impact of Deformalized Time
  11. 3 The Method of An-Archeology
  12. 4 Between Theodicy and Despair
  13. 5 The Sobering Up of Oedipus
  14. 6 Anxieties of Incarnation
  15. 7 Rethinking Death on the Basis of Time
  16. 8 Animals and Creatures
  17. Conclusion: Inheriting the Thought of Diachrony
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index