Levinas and the trauma of responsibility : the ethical significance of time /

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 th...

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Main Author: Coe, Cynthia D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Edition:1st [edition].
Series:Studies in Continental thought.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • LEVINAS AND THE TRAUMA OF RESPONSIBILITY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Deformalizing Time
  • 2 The Traumatic Impact of Deformalized Time
  • 3 The Method of An-Archeology
  • 4 Between Theodicy and Despair
  • 5 The Sobering Up of Oedipus
  • 6 Anxieties of Incarnation
  • 7 Rethinking Death on the Basis of Time
  • 8 Animals and Creatures
  • Conclusion: Inheriting the Thought of Diachrony
  • Bibliography
  • Index.