Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics

Abstract

I. Early Themes.- Being and Beginning.- Laziness and Fatigue.- Being-in-general: il y a.- Dasein and Hypostasis.- Need, Desire and the World.- II Husserl and the Problem of Ontology.- Phenomenological Method and Ontology.- Naturalistic Ontology and Psychologism.- The Problem of Intentionality.- The Meaning of Essences.- The Phenomenological Reduction.- Intentionality as Movement.- The Break with Husserl.- III. From Self to Same.- The Self as Life.- Human Corporeity and Need.- Life and the Elemental.- Habitation.- Art and the Elemental.- IV. The Foundation of Ethical Metaphysics.- What Separated Being Means.- Totality and Exteriority.- The Face and the Problem of Appearance.- The Break with Ontology.- The Idea of the Infinite.- Metaphysics and Justice.- V. Beyond Temporality.- Violence and Time.- Being-towards-death.- The Phenomenology of Love.- The Phenomenon of Transcendence.- Fecundity.- Temporality and Infinity.- VI. What is Language.- Language and Discourse.- An Alternative View of Language.- The Trace.- Responsibility.- VII. Philosophy and the Covenant.- What Judaism Means.- Historical Method and Traditional Texts.- The Phenomenon of Atonement.- Jewish Messianism: The Break with Totality.- The Temptation of Modernity.- The Meaning of Society.- VIII. Conclusions.- The Objectivity of Values.- Morality and Metaphysics.- Language.- The Idea of the Infinite.- Key to special terminology.

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