Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

by Sam B. Girgus

Book Overview

In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.

In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His efforts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147651
• ISBN13: 9780231147651
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher