Levinas and the ancients
By: edited by Brian Schroeder and Silvia Benso ; with a foreword by Adriaan Peperzak.
Contributors: Schroeder, Brian.; Benso, Silvia.
Series: Studies in continental thought
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780253351807; 9780253219985
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The breathing of the air : presocratic echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso; title: The eternal and the new : Socrates and Levinas on desire and need / Deborah Achtenberg; title: Levinas questioning Plato on eros and maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez; title: Getting under the skin : Platonic myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler; title: Lending assistance always to itself : Levinas' infinite conversation with Platonic dialogue / Michael Naas; title: Ethics as first philosophy : Aristotelian reflections on intelligence, sensibility, and transcendence / Claudia Baracchi; title: Aristotle and Levinas on war and peace : the one against the other / Catriona Hanley; title: Stoic ethics and totality in light of Levinasian alterity / Julie Piering; title: Of a non-saying that says nothing : Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche; title: The time and language of messianism : Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo; title: Proximity in distance : Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi; title: A trace of the eternal return : Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder; title: Ethics and predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J.J. Altizer.