Lévinas, disinterest and enthusiasm

Lévinas revives the tradition of disinterest and redefines the classical search for a disinterested subject as a radical dis-interest of the subject by and for the other. He both redefines and reinhabits the traditional grounds of disinterest. While he rejects the sympathetic imagination as a synthe...

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Main Author: Gaston, Sean (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2003
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 407-421
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 / Desinterest / The Other / Idea of God
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
NCC Social ethics
VA Philosophy
Parallel Edition:Electronic