Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling - Dr Will Buckingham

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8159-4 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas's work. By asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas's ethics of responsibility.

It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with ethical dangers; but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.

Will Buckingham is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. In addition to philosophy, he also writes fiction.

Introduction: Levinas and Storytelling / Part I: Philosophers and Storytellers / 1. Of Stars and Scientists / 2. Storytelling into Life / 3. Scientist Turned Storyteller? / Part II: Stories / 4. The Story of the Book / 5. Horror Stories / 6. Idylls and Heroes / 7. The Idyll Eroticised / 8. Strangers and Quests / 9. A Tale of Generations / 10. Many Tales, Many Tellers / Part III: Anti-Stories / 11. No More Stories / 12. The Trouble With Literature / 13. Setting Magic Against Magic / 14. Otherwise than Being / 15. Tracking Trauma in the Text / Part IV: Otherwise / 16. Beyond / 17. In the Court of the Great Khan / 18. Overcoming the Fear of Being / Notes / Bibliography / Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.5.2015
Reihe/Serie Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 277 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4725-8159-8 / 1472581598
ISBN-13 978-1-4725-8159-4 / 9781472581594
Zustand Neuware
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