Altared Ground
| Author | : Brian Schroeder |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2014-04-23 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781134718139 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1134718136 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Download or read book Altared Ground written by Brian Schroeder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading figures in 20th century Continental philosophy, and Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and others in the history of ideas. Not merely an exposition of Levinas' original and complex thinking, Brian Schroeder seeks to re-read the history of Western philosophy and religion by going beyond Levinas' alternatives to traditional theories of the self in order to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence.
