Proper Names by Emmanuel Levinas

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Levinas discusses his encounters with those philosophers and literary authors whose writings have contributed to his own philosophy: Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabès, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl, and, most notably, Blanchot.

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Proper Names by Emmanuel Levinas

Levinas discusses his encounters with those philosophers and literary authors whose writings have contributed to his own philosophy: Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabes, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl, and, most notably, Blanchot.

“Perhaps the names of persons whose saying signifies a face—proper names in the middle of all these common names and commonplaces—can resist the dissolution of meaning and help us to speak” —From the author’s Foreword

Emmanuel Levinas is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Among his many books is Outside the Subject (Stanford, 1994).
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ISBN 13 9780804723527
ISBN 10 0804723524
Title Proper Names
Author Emmanuel Levinas
Series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 1997-02-01
Number of pages 207
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