Levinas and Literature : New Directions.

By: Fagenblat, MichaelContributor(s): Cools, ArthurMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110668926Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Levinas and LiteratureDDC classification: 194 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies -- Contents -- Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy -- The Anarchy of Literature -- Part I: Eros -- Eros, Emmanuel Levinas's Novel? -- Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy -- The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The "Scene of Alen�con" -- From Eros to the Question of the Death of God -- Part II: Biblical Texts -- Languages of the Universal. Levinas' (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature -- The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama -- Literature as a Burning Bush -- Part III: Poetry -- Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire? -- "L�es-Po�esie?": Levinas Reads La folie du jour -- Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas's Works -- The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan -- Part IV: Novel Writers -- The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time -- Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of L�eon Bloy -- Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas -- Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan's novel Atonement -- Part V: Literary Theory -- Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics -- Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno.
Summary: This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.
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Intro -- Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies -- Contents -- Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy -- The Anarchy of Literature -- Part I: Eros -- Eros, Emmanuel Levinas's Novel? -- Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy -- The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The "Scene of Alen�con" -- From Eros to the Question of the Death of God -- Part II: Biblical Texts -- Languages of the Universal. Levinas' (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature -- The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama -- Literature as a Burning Bush -- Part III: Poetry -- Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire? -- "L�es-Po�esie?": Levinas Reads La folie du jour -- Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas's Works -- The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan -- Part IV: Novel Writers -- The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time -- Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of L�eon Bloy -- Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas -- Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan's novel Atonement -- Part V: Literary Theory -- Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics -- Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno.

This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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