Meaning and Melancholy in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

by Stine Holte

Book cover: Meaning and Melancholy in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

Extent: 192 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Research in Contemporary Religion

Series volume number: 18

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2014)

ISBN: 9783525604526

Price: $88.00

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Although considered as one of the 20th century most central ethical thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas claimed that his task was not to construct an ethics, but to seek the meaning of the ethical. In this study Stine Holte examines the problem of ethical meaning in Levinas’ thinking and shows how the articulation of the ethical implies notions like trauma, melancholy, and shame, and hence a questioning of what we normally regard as meaningful.

  • By (author) Stine Holte