Levinas and the Ancients (Studies in Continental Thought)

Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Philosophy. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics. Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Philosophy. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics. Foreword by Adriaan Peperzak Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas To Return in a New Way: Introduction / Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder 1. The Breathing of the Air: Presocratic Echoes in Levinas / Silvia Benso 2. The Eternal and the New: Socrates and Levinas on Desire and Need / Deborah Achtenberg 3. Levinas Questioning Plato on Eros and Maieutics / Francisco J. Gonzalez 4. Getting under the Skin: Platonic Myths in Levinas / Tanja Sthler 5. Lending Assistance Always to Itself: Levinas' Infinite Conversation with Platonic Dialogue / Michael Naas 6. Ethics as First Philosophy: Aristotelian Reflections on Intelligence, Sensibility, and Transcendence / Claudia Baracchi 7. Aristotle and Levinas on War and Peace: The One against the Other / Catriona Hanley 8. Stoic Ethics and Totality in Light of Levinasian Alterity / Julie Piering 9. Of a Non-Saying That Says Nothing: Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche 10. The Time and Language of Messianism: Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo 11. Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi 12. A Trace of the Eternal Return? Levinas and Neoplatonism / Brian Schroeder 13. Ethics and Predestination in Augustine and Levinas / Thomas J. J. Altizer List of Contributors Index