Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement: Singing through the Mask, Gudrun M. Grabher

Автор: Moshe Gold, Sandor Goodhart, Kent Lehnhof
Название: Of Levinas and Shakespeare: To See Another Thus
ISBN: 1557538050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781557538055
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 55440.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work or dedicated volume has brought this thoughtful lens to bear in a sustained discussion of the works of Shakespeare. It should not surprise anyone that Levinas identified his own thinking as Shakespearean. ""The play’s the thing"" for both, or put differently,the observation of intersubjectivity is. What may surprise and indeed delightall learned readers is to consider what we might yet gain from considering eachin light of the other.Comprising leadingscholars in philosophy and literature, Of Levinas and Shakespeare: ""To See Another Thus"" is the firstbook-length work to treat both great thinkers. Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth dominate the discussion; however, essays also address Cymbeline,The Merchant of Venice, and even poetry, such as Venus and Adonis. Volume editors planned and contributors deliver a thorough treatment from multiple perspectives, yet none intends this volume to be the last word on the subject; rather, they would have it be a provocation to further discussion, anenticement for richer enjoyment, and an invitation for deeper contemplation of Levinas and Shakespeare.

Автор: Moati Raoul
Название: Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
ISBN: 0823273202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823273201
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 25910.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after “end of metaphysics”? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.
Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger’s ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of “being” beyond Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls “nocturnal events.” Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications.
Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

Автор: Patricia Skinner
Название: Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
ISBN: 1349950734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349950737
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 26090.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions.

Автор: Raoul Moati
Название: Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
ISBN: 0823273199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823273195
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 83600.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after “end of metaphysics”? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.
Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger’s ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of “being” beyond Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls “nocturnal events.” Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications.
Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

Автор: Talley Heather Laine
Название: Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
ISBN: 0814784119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814784112
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Рейтинг:
Цена: 27450.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Imagine yourself without a face—the task
seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face
is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are
also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of
eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can
endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening,
at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the
disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of
being in the world.
In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine
Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions
aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography,
participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography,
Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are “repaired:” face
transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable
organization Operation Smile,. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on
repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing
upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also
considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge
stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status.
Talley delves into the promise and
limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand
appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately,
she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive
techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions
are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when
aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when
discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges
us to think critically about how we see the human face.

Автор: McAteer Mary
Название: Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
ISBN: 1137294078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137294074
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 83850.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.