The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle.

Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.
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The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle.

Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.
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The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

by Stella Sandford
The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

by Stella Sandford

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Overview

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle.

Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780485121636
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/03/2001
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stella Sandford is at Middlesex University, UK.

Table of Contents

1: The Metaphysics of Transcendence
2: Feminine/Female/Femme: Sexual Difference and the Human
3: Paternal Fecundity: Sons and Brothers
4: A Maternal Alternative? Levinas and Plato on Love
5: Affectivity and Meaning: the Intelligibility of Transcendence Coda: Metaphysics and Feminism.

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