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God, Death, and Time (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (in English)
Emmanuel Levinas
Synopsis "God, Death, and Time (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (in English)"
This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most important--and difficult--book, Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence. Both courses pursue issues related to the question at the heart of Levinas's thought: ethical relation. The Foreword and Afterword place the lectures in the context of his work as a whole, rounding out this unique picture of Levinas the thinker and the teacher. The lectures are essential to a full understanding of Levinas for three reasons. First, he seeks to explain his thought to an audience of students, with a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his written work. Second, the themes of God, death, and time are not only crucial for Levinas, but they lead him to confront their treatment by the main philosphers of the great continental tradition. Thus his discussions of accounts of death by Heidegger, Hegel, and Bloch place Levinas's thought in a broader context. Third, the basic concepts Levinas employs are those of Otherwise than Being rather than the earlier Totality and Infinity: patience, obsession, substitution, witness, traumatism. There is a growing recognition that the ultimate standing of Levinas as a philosopher may well depend on his assessment of those terms. These lectures offer an excellent introduction to them that shows how they contribute to a wide range of traditional philosophical issues.
Nació en Kaunas (Lituania) el año 1906. Estudió filosofía en la Universidad de Estrasburgo (1923-1928) y después fenomenología en la de Friburgo, donde conoció a E. Husserl y a M. Heidegger. Se nacionalizó francés en 1930, año en que escribe La teoría fenomenológica de la intuición para dar a conocer el pensamiento de Husserl en Francia. Tras la segunda guerra mundial, la mayor parte de la cual estuvo prisionero, Levinas frecuentó los círculos filosóficos más en vanguardia, tanto de G. Marcel como de Jean Wahl.
En los años 50 da comienzo a una filosofía ética sumamente original. Influido por las filosofías dialógicas de F. Rosenzweig y M. Buber, Levinas redacta su primera gran obra: Totalidad e infinito (1961), cuyas intuiciones reelaborará en su segundo texto clave: De otro modo que ser o más allá de la esencia (1974), principal contribución al debate sobre el discurso metafísico.
Además de los textos estrictamente filosóficos, hay que mencionar sus escritos confesionales, especialmente los comentarios al Talmud, como Cuatro lecturas talmúdicas (1968) o De lo sagrado a lo santo (1977). Levinas murió en París, el 25 de diciembre de 1995.
