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Levinas and the Night of Being : A Guide to Totality and Infinity / Raoul Moati.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823273195
  • 9780823273225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111 23
LOC classification:
  • BD396.L433 M63 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Levinas and the Night of Being -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Foreword: The Presence of the Infinite -- Preface: The Nocturnal Face of Being -- Chapter 1. Messianic Eschatology, or The Production of Ultimate Events of Being -- Chapter 2. To Receive the Idea of the Infi nite -- Chapter 3. The Sensible Depth of Being -- Chapter 4. The Terrestrial Condition -- Chapter 5. The Utopia of the Dwelling -- Chapter 6. The Metaphysical Context of Intentionality -- Chapter 7. Being toward Infi nity -- Conclusion. Intentionality and Metaphysics -- Notes -- Bibliography
Summary: Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after "end of metaphysics"? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger's ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of "being" beyond Heidegger's fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls "nocturnal events." Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications. Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".
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Levinas and the Night of Being -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Foreword: The Presence of the Infinite -- Preface: The Nocturnal Face of Being -- Chapter 1. Messianic Eschatology, or The Production of Ultimate Events of Being -- Chapter 2. To Receive the Idea of the Infi nite -- Chapter 3. The Sensible Depth of Being -- Chapter 4. The Terrestrial Condition -- Chapter 5. The Utopia of the Dwelling -- Chapter 6. The Metaphysical Context of Intentionality -- Chapter 7. Being toward Infi nity -- Conclusion. Intentionality and Metaphysics -- Notes -- Bibliography

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Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after "end of metaphysics"? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger's ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of "being" beyond Heidegger's fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls "nocturnal events." Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications. Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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