Levinas and Literature: New Directions

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2021

Levinas and Literature

New Directions

Edited by: Michael Fagenblat and Arthur Cools

Volume 15 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668926

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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

Chapters address Levinas's posthumously published diaries and drafts of novels
Contributors from France, Belgium, Israel, and the USA

Author / Editor information

Michael Fagenblat, Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel; Arthur Cools, University of Antwerp. Belgium.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Open Access Transformation in Jewish Studies Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Levinas and Literature, a Marvellous Hypocrisy Michael Fagenblat Open Access Download PDF	IX
The Anarchy of Literature Arthur Cools Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Eros
Eros, Emmanuel Levinas’s Novel? Jean-Luc Nancy Open Access Download PDF	21
Eros, Once Again: Danielle Cohen-Levinas in Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy Open Access Download PDF	37
The Debacle or The Real Under Reduction: The “Scene of Alençon” François-David Sebbah Open Access Download PDF	47
From Eros to the Question of the Death of God Michaël de Saint-Cheron Open Access Download PDF	63
Part II: Biblical Texts
Languages of the Universal. Levinas’ (scandalous) Doctrine of Literature Eli Schonfeld Open Access Download PDF	77
The Genesis of Totality and Infinity: The Secret Drama Michael Fagenblat Open Access Download PDF	93
Literature as a Burning Bush Marcel Poorthuis Open Access Download PDF	117
Part III: Poetry
Levinas and the Poetic Word: Writing with Baudelaire? Annelies Schulte Nordholt Open Access Download PDF	133
“Lès-Poésie?”: Levinas Reads La folie du jour Kevin Hart Open Access Download PDF	147
Poetic Language and Prophetic Language in Levinas’s Works Eric Hoppenot Open Access Download PDF	165
The Poem, the Place, the Jew: Emmanuel Levinas on Paul Celan Vivian Liska Open Access Download PDF	175
Part IV: Novel Writers
The Literary Instant and the Condition of Being Hostage: Levinas, Proust, and the Corporeal Meaning of Time Danielle Cohen-Levinas Open Access Download PDF	195
Ideology, Literature, and Philosophy: Levinas as a Reader of Léon Bloy Jan Bierhanzl Open Access Download PDF	209
Goodness without Witnesses: Vasily Grossman and Emmanuel Levinas Luc Anckaert Open Access Download PDF	223
Reading Fiction with Levinas: Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement Tammy Amiel Houser Open Access Download PDF	239
Part V: Literary Theory
Emmanuel Levinas: Metaphor without Metaphysics Shira Wolosky Open Access Download PDF	259
Apparition: Aesthetics of Disproportion in Levinas and Adorno Ashraf Noor Open Access Download PDF	281

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 314
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Levinas; literature; Nancy

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668926

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110629668

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111088426