Altared Ground: Levinas, History, Violence

By Brian Schroeder

Book Overview

One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading figures in 20th century Continental philosophy, and Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and others in the history of ideas. Not merely an exposition of Levinas' original and complex thinking, Brian Schroeder seeks to re-read the history of Western philosophy and religion by going beyond Levinas' alternatives to traditional theories of the self in order to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415914523
• ISBN13: 9780415914529
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"