Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century: the man who countered Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and Lautreamont, who
First, this collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas’s writings mean for both Jews and Christians. Second, it takes a snapshot of the current state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas
The book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of experience,or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it
We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and t
One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Bart
In these proceedings of the November 2002 conference of the same name, contributors explore the contributions of the "later Derrida" to the studies of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of
Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings is the first anthology of this major contemporary philosopher's writings. It spans his entire career as a historian of philosophy, as a theologian, and as a the
"Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings is the first anthology of this major contemporary philosopher's writings. It spans his entire career as a historian of philosophy, as a theologian, and as a th
