Ethics and Dialogue
In the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan
$413.48
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2000
Summary
Ethics and Dialogue engages with four of the most complex authors of the twentieth centuryDSLevinas, Bakhtin, Mandel’shtam, and CelanDSin a hermeneutically and methodologically innovative manner. Construing Levinas’s ethical philosophy in conjunction with Bakhtin’s philosophy of the act and metalinguistics, as an interpretative framework for making sense of Celan’s dialogue with Mandel’shtam, the author develops a highly sophisticated mode of readingpoetryDSpoethicsDSwhich takes into account …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198159926 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198159927 |
| Author: | Michael Eskin |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 479g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 146mm x 21mm |
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A very welcome and illuminating book… magnificently in control of the material, and informative… What it touches is always very provocative. Modern Language Review A welcome rereading of Bakhtin in a Russian context… For those who think of Bakhtin only as the theorist of the novel, and Levinas as a Rabbi and philosopher, this book everywhere upsets neat categorisation and offers a powerful apology for a creative ethics of the word. Forum for Modern Language Studies
About The Author
Michael Eskin
Michael Eskin was educated at the University of Munich, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Concordia College, and Rutgers University. A former fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he has taught at the University of Cambridge and at Columbia University. He has published widely on philosophical, cultural, and literary subjects, including: The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays by Durs Gruenbein (as editor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life (UWSP, 2008; under the pseudonym “Julien David”); 17 Prejudices That We Germans Hold Against America and A
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