Levinas's Philosophy of Time: Gift, Responsibility, Diachrony, Hope

Published in 2013 | paper | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0462-3 Note: This book is currently out of print, however a reprint may be possible for faculty/class adoptions, subject to minimum quantities. Please contact our print and fulfillment partner XanEdu Custom Publishing for more information: (800) 218-5971 ext. 8000. Book Reviews: “Not only has [Severson] written a learned and readable work of scholarship, he has produced a key to interpreting Levinas’s entire body of work, from his earliest to his last. This key — Levinas’s understanding of time — unlocks Levinas’s famously ‘radical claim that ethics is first philosophy.’ Severson’s book is at its best when it’s exploring the connection between time and some other theme, whether Hitlerism, capitalism, hope, or language.” — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Most significant among his accomplishments, Severson demonstrates the unity of Levinas’s thinking about time, alterity, and ethics . . . , and he does so without ceremony or undue adulatio