Levinas and the Holocaust
A Reconstruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20409071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Plant (University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-79 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-699X • E-ISSN: 1477-285X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1477285x-12341251 |
| OpenAlex | W2017289328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Emmanuel Levinas remains one of the most influential and challenging writers in twentieth-century European philosophy. But while critics often accuse him of obscurantism, even sympathetic readers are not always enamored with Levinas's highly emotive vocabulary. Although there are standard ways of reading Levinas's work—usually through his phenomenological and/or Judaic heritage—in this paper I offer a different route of access. Drawing primarily on Primo Levi's testimonial Holocaust writings, I argue that reading Levinas as a "post-Holocaust" thinker both clarifies key features of his work, and eases at least some of the frustration commonly experienced by readers
Art · Psychoanalysis · The Holocaust · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |