Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence
by Emmanuel Levinas
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Author: Emmanuel LevinasEdition: Paperback
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-05
ISBN: 0820702994
Number of pages: 205
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
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Book Review: Fundamental basis for all of Levinas Philosophical work
Summary: 5 Stars
Otherwise Than Being (along with Existence and Existents), is basic to the understanding of Levinas' philosophical thought. Some of the fundamental problems with the ideas in Otherwise Than Being are resolved more fully in Levina's "mature work" (like Entre Nous), things such as overreliance on subjectivity and rejection of "onto-theology" without the development of an alternative metaphysics (his "trancendence," the essence of otherwise-than-being seems located more in psychology than in ontology in this book), and his contradictory unwillingness to identify or not identify "illeity" as an attribute of God or as the trace of God's "being." "Illeity" is one of those Levinasisms that was never fully defined by him in this work. Nevertheless, this is his foundational--a word Levinas rejected, by the way--work. His reliance on the "provisional" language of modern phenomenology makes it a difficult read, but Levinas clearly saw it as his best starting point.
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