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\"Imagine listening at a keyhole to a conversation with the task of transcribing it, and the result may be a text similar to the present one.\" — from Part I: Stagework
In a series of meditations responding to writings by Emmanuel Levinas, David Appelbaum suggests that a flawed grammar warrants Levinas to speak of language at the service of ethics. It is the nature of performance that he mistakes. Appelbaum articulates this flaw by performing in writing the act of the philosophical mind at work. Incorporating the voices of other thinkers—in particular Levinas's contemporaries Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot—sometimes clearly, sometimes indistinctly, Appelbaum creates on these pages a kind of soundstage upon which illustrations appear of what he terms \"a rhetorical aesthetic,\" which would reestablish rhetoric, rules for giving voice—and not ethics—as the correct matrix for understanding the otherness and beyond-being that Levinas seeks in his work.
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\"Imagine listening at a keyhole to a conversation with the task of transcribing it, and the result may be a text similar to the present one.\" — from Part I: Stagework
In a series of meditations responding to writings by Emmanuel Levinas, David Appelbaum suggests that a flawed grammar warrants Levinas to speak of language at the service of ethics. It is the nature of performance that he mistakes. Appelbaum articulates this flaw by performing in writing the act of the philosophical mind at work. Incorporating the voices of other thinkers—in particular Levinas's contemporaries Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot—sometimes clearly, sometimes indistinctly, Appelbaum creates on these pages a kind of soundstage upon which illustrations appear of what he terms \"a rhetorical aesthetic,\" which would reestablish rhetoric, rules for giving voice—and not ethics—as the correct matrix for understanding the otherness and beyond-being that Levinas seeks in his work.
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What is A Propos, Levinas about?
\"Imagine listening at a keyhole to a conversation with the task of transcribing it, and the result may be a text similar to the present one.\" — from Part I: Stagework
In a series of meditations responding to writings by Emmanuel Levinas, David Appelbaum suggests that a flawed grammar warrants Levinas to speak of language at the service of ethics. It is the nature of performance that he mistakes. Appelbaum articulates this flaw by performing in writing the act of the philosophical mind at work. Incorporating the voices of other thinkers—in particular Levinas's contemporaries Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot—sometimes clearly, sometimes indistinctly, Appelbaum creates on these pages a kind of soundstage upon which illustrations appear of what he terms \"a rhetorical aesthetic,\" which would reestablish rhetoric, rules for giving voice—and not ethics—as the correct matrix for understanding the otherness and beyond-being that Levinas seeks in his work.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in A Propos, Levinas?
Philosophy and Religion > Philosophy > Philosophical traditions and schools of thought > Western philosophy from c 1800 > Structuralism and Post-structuralism
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How long is A Propos, Levinas and how many pages does it have?
A Propos, Levinas has 189 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book A Propos, Levinas?
David Appelbaum
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A Propos, Levinas is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438443119) and paperback(ISBN 9781438443102) and pdf(ISBN 9781438443126)
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