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Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Radical PassivityRadical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics,...
Full description- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Published: 28 February 1999
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Political Ideologies | History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology | Philosophy: Logic
- ISBN 13: 9780791440483 ISBN 10: 0791440486
- Sales rank: 525,564
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Full description for Radical Passivity
Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema
