The awakening to the other
Subtitle: a provocative dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas
By: edited by Roger Burggraeve
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leuven; Dudley, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9789042920705
Subjects: Humanism; Moral and ethical aspects
Other titles: Provocative dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editorial note / W. Wolf Diedrich; title: Introduction : awakened into vigilance : in conversation with a recalcitrant thinker / Roger Burggraeve; title: "No one can save oneself without others" : an ethic of liberation in the footsteps of Emmanuel Levinas / Roger Burggraeve; title: Levinas' Christian readers : Judaism's other? / W. Wolf Diedrich; title: Infinite responsibility and 'good enough parenting' : the challenge of Levinas' thought for family ethics / Annemie Dillen; title: The other as oneself : a confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas / Tomas Folens; title: Renewing Christian theology with Levinas : towards a Trinitarian Praxis / Glenn Morrison; title: In response to the religious other : Levinas, interreligious dialogue and the otherness of the other / Marianne Moyaert; title: The face-to-face as asymmetrical and reciprocal revelation : founding the ethics of the process of pastoral counseling in the footsteps of Levinas / Marina Riemslagh; title: On freedom in Athens and Jerusalem : Arendt's political challenge to Levinas' ethics of responsibility / Anya Topolski; title: From humanism to anti-humanism and back again : Levinas' redefinition of subjectivity and responsibility / Emilie Van Daele; title: An agapeic ethics without eros? : Emmanuel Levinas on need, happiness and desire / Jean Vanheessen; title: On time : Levinas' appropriation of Bergson / Sophie Veulemans; title: Levinas, euthanasia and the presence of non-sense / Torben Wolfs.