The inhuman condition
Subtitle: looking for difference after Levinas and Heidegger
By: Rudi Visker.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820704173
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976; Difference (Philosophy); Humanity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Talking 'bout my generation; title: Part I: Looking for difference; title: Levinas, multiculturalism, and us; title: In respectful contempt : Heidegger, appropriation, facticity; title: Whistling in the dark : two approaches to anxiety; title: Part II: After Levinas; title: The price of being dispossessed : Levinas' God and Freud's trauma; title: The mortality of the transcendent : Levinas and evil; title: Is ethics fundamental? : questioning Levinas on irresponsibility; title: Part III: After Heidegger; title: Intransitive facticity : a question to Heidegger; title: Demons and the demonic : Kierkegaard and Heidegger on anxiety and sexual difference; title: Dissensus communis : how to keep silent "after" Lyotard; title: Conclusion: In search of visibility.