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Time and Others Author: [France] Emmanuel Levinas Publisher: Baideya | Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Translator: Wang Jiajun
Time and Others Author: [France] Emmanuel Levinas Publisher: Baideya | Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House Translator: Wang Jiajun
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Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
-Editor's Recommendation-
★★Collection of lecture notes × clear and easy to read★★
This book is compiled from the shorthand transcripts of Emmanuel Levinas' series of lectures on "Time and the Other" at the Faculty of Philosophy from 1946 to 1947. It has rare clarity and readability, and can be said to be Levinas's most readable work.
★★Thought transition×Representative works★★
This book not only continues the discussion of "From Existence to Beings" published in 1947, but also previews the key ideas of "Totality and Infinity" published in 1961. It is a transition between these two important works, outlining a coherent line of ideological development, and is recognized as the author's representative work.
★★One goal × four topics★★
This book presents the goal of the lecture series - time is not the behavior of an isolated and single subject, but the relationship between the subject and others - and develops four progressive topics around this:
(1) Existential loneliness
(2) Enjoyment and Transcendence in Everyday Life
(3) The absolute alterity of death and the relationship between time and the other that it reveals
(4) Eros and fertility as another kind of time-relationship with the Other, and their victory over death
-Content Introduction-
This book evolved from four lectures by Levinas, and is a transition between the author's two important representative works in his early and middle periods, From Being to Beings and Totality and Infinity. In this book, Levinas further elaborates on the generation of time in relationship with others, and the idea that temporality is social relations itself, which has already appeared in From Being to Beings. Levinas's thoughts are difficult and his language is obscure, but the structure of this book is very systematic, and the advancement of the logical level is also very clear. Compared with his other works, this book is indeed one of the best choices for getting started.
About the Author · · · · · ·
-About the Author-
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), a French philosopher of Lithuanian origin, is world-renowned for his conception of "ethics as the first philosophy" and his advancement of phenomenology and Jewish thought. He has profoundly influenced contemporary thinkers such as Blanchot, Derrida, Ricoeur, Lyotard, Marion, and Butler.
-Translator Profile-
Wang Jiajun is an associate editor of the Chinese Department of East China Normal University. He holds a PhD from East China Normal University and Regent College of the University of British Columbia, Canada, and is a member of the Chinese Society of Literary Theory. He has published Existence, Otherness, and Otherness: Levinas and Contemporary French Literary Theory (monograph), Schopenhauer and the Theory of the Sublime (monograph), and Introduction to Levinas (translation). He has also published papers in journals such as Literary Review, Literary Research, Philosophical Dynamics, and Daofeng: Christian Cultural Review. He presided over the National Social Science Fund Youth Project and the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Fund Youth Project. He won the second prize of the 14th Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (Discipline Academic) (2018).
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