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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 44-79 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Keywords
- everyday kindness
- guilt
- usurpation
- vulnerability
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Levinas and the Holocaust : a reconstruction. / Plant, Bob.
In: Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2014, p. 44-79.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Levinas and the Holocaust
T2 - a reconstruction
AU - Plant, Bob
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - AbstractEmmanuel Levinas remains one of the most influential and challenging writers in twentieth-century European philosophy. But while critics often accuse him of obscurantism, even sympathetic readers are not always enamored with Levinas’s highly emotive vocabulary. Although there are standard ways of reading Levinas’s work—usually through his phenomenological and/or Judaic heritage—in this paper I offer a different route of access. Drawing primarily on Primo Levi’s testimonial Holocaust writings, I argue that reading Levinas as a “post-Holocaust” thinker both clarifies key features of his work, and eases at least some of the frustration commonly experienced by readers.
AB - AbstractEmmanuel Levinas remains one of the most influential and challenging writers in twentieth-century European philosophy. But while critics often accuse him of obscurantism, even sympathetic readers are not always enamored with Levinas’s highly emotive vocabulary. Although there are standard ways of reading Levinas’s work—usually through his phenomenological and/or Judaic heritage—in this paper I offer a different route of access. Drawing primarily on Primo Levi’s testimonial Holocaust writings, I argue that reading Levinas as a “post-Holocaust” thinker both clarifies key features of his work, and eases at least some of the frustration commonly experienced by readers.
KW - everyday kindness
KW - guilt
KW - usurpation
KW - vulnerability
U2 - 10.1163/1477285x-12341251
DO - 10.1163/1477285x-12341251
M3 - Article
VL - 22
SP - 44
EP - 79
JO - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
JF - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -