Essential vulnerabilities : Plato and Levinas on relations to the Other /
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Author / Creator: | Achtenberg, Deborah, 1951- author. |
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Imprint: | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rereading ancient philosophy Rereading ancient philosophy. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660081 |
ISBN: | 9780810167827 0810167824 9780810129948 0810129949 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | "In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable and essentially in relation to others, they conceive human vulnerability and responsiveness differently. For Plato, when we see beautiful others, we are overwhelmed by the beauty of what is, by the vision of eternal form. For Levinas, we are disrupted by the newness, foreignness, or singularity of the other. The other, for him, is new or foreign, not eternal. The other is unknowable singularity. By showing these similarities and differences, Achtenberg resituates Plato in relation to Levinas and opens up two contrasting ways that self is essentially in relation to others."--Page 4 of cover |
Other form: | Print version: Achtenberg, Deborah, 1951- Essential vulnerabilities. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014 |
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