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The phenomenology of gravidity
The Phenomenology of Gravidity explores the particularity of women's engagements with gestation, linking the denial of certain embodied experiences of pregnancy to gender oppression. Employing the term 'gravidity' to name the metaphysical condition of having conceived, Lymer develops a theory of maternity that emphasises the interactive nature of gestation, highlighting the necessity for women to choose to become maternal as an important factor in optimal foetal development. Critically drawing on bonding and attachment theory, Lymer rethinks debates around abortion, adoption and surrogacy which ignore the ethical and practical implications of an understanding of gestation that is necessarily interactive and embodied, challenging the view of the pregnant woman as a passive container. Through an engagement with the work of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida, The Phenomenology of Gravidityoffers an ethical feminist framework for a hospitality of gravidity which welcomes the place of the pregnant mother in all her guises, while highlighting the medical, legal and ethical consequences of failing in this welcome.
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Levinas and the night of being
Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after GÇ£end of metaphysicsGÇ¥? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated. Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to HeideggerGÇÖs ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of GÇ£beingGÇ¥ beyond HeideggerGÇÖs fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls GÇ£nocturnal events.GÇ¥ Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications. Following Levinas's account of these nocturnal events, Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a metaphysics of society that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the metaphysics of presence. Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the end of metaphysics.
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Levinas's Ethical Politics
Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political ethics, Michael L. Morgan argues against understandings of Levinas's thought that find him politically wanting or even antipolitical. Morgan examines Levinas's ethical critique of the political as well as his Jewish writings-including those on Zionism and the founding of the Jewish state-which are controversial reflections of Levinas's political expression. Unlike others who dismiss Levinas as irrelevant or anarchical, Morgan is the first to give extensive treatment to Levinas as a serious social political thinker whose ethics must be understood in terms of its political implications. Morgan reveals Levinas's political commitments to liberalism and democracy as well as his revolutionary conception of human life as deeply interconnected on philosophical, political, and religious grounds.
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Levinas and the cinema of redemption
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 point to a transnational pattern he terms the
\"cinema of redemption\" that portrays the struggle to connect to
others in redeeming ways. Girgus not only reveals the power of
these films to articulate the crisis between ontological identity
and ethical subjectivity. He also locates time and ethics within
the structure and content of film itself. Drawing on the work of
Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek, Girgus
reconsiders Levinas and his relationship to film, engaging with a
feminist focus on the sexualized female body. Girgus offers fresh
readings of films from several decades and cultures, including
Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939),
Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo
Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The
Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable
Lightness of Being (1988).
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Broken tablets
Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas's investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conviction that the young state of Israel held the best possibility for achieving such an ideal. For Derrida, the Jewish question was literary. The stakes of Jewish survival could only be approached through reflections on modern literature's religious legacy, a line of thinking that provided him the means to reconceive democracy. Hammerschlag's reexamination of Derrida and Levinas's textual exchange not only produces a new account of this friendship but also has significant ramifications for debates within Continental philosophy, the study of religion, and political theology.
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Levinas, subjectivity, education : towards an ethics of radical responsibility
Levinas, Subjectivity, Education explores how the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas lead us to reassess education and reveals the possibilities of a radical new understanding of ethical and political responsibility.
* Presents an original theoretical interpretation of Emmanuel Levinas that outlines the political significance of his work for contemporary debates on education
* Offers a clear analysis of Levinas's central philosophical concepts, including the place of religion in his work, demonstrating their relevance for educational theorists
* Examines Alain Badiou's critique of Levinas's work
* Considers the practical implications of Levinas' theories for concrete educational practices and frameworks
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