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By Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sessler, Tal; Camus, Albert
This very important new ebook compares the respective oeuvre of 2 seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. Tal Sessler compares their lasting legacies in the particular context of highbrow resistance to totalitarianism and political violence, with specific specialize in their respective techniques to the Holocaust and genocide within the twentieth century and, correspondingly, the query of theodicy and spiritual religion.
Levinas and Camus explores every one thinker's congruent and complimentary metaphysical and political purpose in opposing tyranny. Sessler emphasises the spiritual part in Levinas's depiction of Hitlerism as paganism (a conception that Camus shares), and the correlation among liberalism and monotheism. The e-book explores Levinas and Camus's reflections at the Holocaust and the query of theodicy and offers with their corresponding evaluations of Stalinism and Hegelian philosophy of background.
Sessler is going directly to give some thought to how Levinas and Camus might have contended with the relevant political factor of our personal period, non secular fundamentalism, and explicates the dualist nature of Israel and Algeria within the writings of Levinas and Camus.
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Towards the very end of his exposition in the 'Reflections on Hitlerism', prior to lamenting the intellectual and existential manipulation by the Nazis of Zarathustra's sermon, Levinas summarizes the gist of the ontological temptation inherent in the Hitlerian delusion of regeneration and authenticity, which takes care to capitalize metaphysically on the communal deficit and the 'transcendental homelessness' inherent in an epoch seemingly typified by decadence and nihilism. The paragraph is a veritable tour de force, and is highly reminiscent of the Spenglerian vogue of Zivilisationkritiker^1 which dominated the inter-war period.
25 Levinas describes his critique as 'difficult reflections', which 'go further than one would think ...
The welcoming of a being that appears in the face, the ethical event ... the epiphany that is produced as a face ... "reveals" infinity ... ' Moreover, 'the face in which the other - the absolutely other - presents himself does not negate the same, does not do violence to it... it remains commensurate with him who welcomes. This presentation is pre-eminently non-violence, for instead of offending my freedom it calls it to responsibility and founds it. As non-violence it nonetheless maintains the plurality of the same and the other.