Lévinas: Chinese and Western Perspectives

Copyright © 2008 Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Lévinas: Chinese and Western Perspectives

Editor(s): Nicholas Bunnin, Dachun Yang, Linyu Gu

Published Online: 16 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405195454

Online ISBN: 9781444309621

DOI: 10.1002/9781444309621

Series Editor(s): Chung-Ying Cheng

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Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century's most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers.

  • Comparative discussion of Lévinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophy
  • Innovative accounts of Lévinasian themes of surpassing phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy of saintliness, transcendence and immanence, time and sensibility, desire, death, political philosophy, the subject, and the space of communicativity

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–3)

    2. Introduction (pages 5–10)

      Nicholas Bunnin

    3. Lévinas and the Three Dimensions of Surpassing Phenomenology (pages 11–29)

      Dachun Yang

    4. Lévinas and Heidegger: A Post-Heideggerian Approach to Phenomenological Issues (pages 31–46)

      Jacques Taminiaux

    5. The Philosophy of Saintliness: Some Notes on the Thought of Lévinas (pages 47–59)

      Du Xiaozhen

    6. Phenomenology or Anti-Phenomenology?—The Ethical Subject in Lévinas (pages 61–78)

      Mo Weimin

    7. The Split Subject (pages 79–87)

      Simon Critchley

    8. Transcendence or Immanence? Lévinas, Bergson, and Chinese Thought (pages 89–104)

      Wang Liping

    9. Lévinas's Phenomenology of Sensibility and Time in his Early Period (pages 105–121)

      Wang Heng

    10. Desire by Lévinas (pages 123–132)

      Marie-Anne Lescourret

    11. The Phenomenology of Death (pages 133–141)

      Shang Jie

    12. The Concepts of Death in Heidegger and Lévinas (pages 143–154)

      Wang Tangjia

    13. Emmanuel Lévinas and the Critique of Modern Political Philosophy (pages 155–165)

      Sun Xiangchen

    14. Extraterritoriality: Outside the Subject, Outside the State (pages 167–181)

      Robert Bernasconi

    15. “The Space of Communicativity”: Lévinas and Architecture (pages 183–194)

      Dorian Wiszniewski

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