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 Fran?ois-David Sebbah, among others.

Author: Michael Fagenblat
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 12/19/2022
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts #15
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9783111088426

About the Author

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