Death and responsibility
Subtitle: the "work" of Levinas
By: Dennis King Keenan.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel.; Responsibility.; Death.
Description: The work of Levinas has, for the most part, been too easily read. Levinas's use of words like "responsibility" and "God" gives some readers reason to dismiss his work as insufficiently attentive to the whispered suspicions of our times, while giving others reason to accept his work as a clarion call guiding them out of this wilderness of disorienting whispers.

Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, Keenan argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119) and index.