Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8159-4 (ISBN)
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 |
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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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