The self-emptying subject : kenosis and immanence, medieval to modern /

Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy--Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault's ethics of self-cultivation--The Self-Emptying Subject theorizes an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis, that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and disposs...

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Main Author: Dubilet, Alex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Meister Eckhart's kenotic lexicon and the critique of finitude
  • 2. Conceptual experimentation with the divine : expression, univocity, and immanence in Meister Eckhart
  • 3. From estrangement to Entäusserung : undoing the unhappy consciousness in the Phenomenology of spirit
  • 4. Hegel's annihilation of finitude
  • 5. Sans emploi, sans repos, sans reponse : Georges Bataille's loss without a why.