TY - BOOK ID - 6640849 TI - In the margins of deconstruction : Jewish conceptions of ethics in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. PY - 1998 VL - 32 SN - 0792349539 9401061882 9401151989 9780792349532 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Deconstruction KW - Jewish ethics KW - History KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel KW - Derrida, Jacques KW - Ethics KW - Ethics, Jewish KW - -Ethics, Modern KW - -Modern ethics KW - Jews KW - Religious ethics KW - Criticism KW - Semiotics and literature KW - -Ethics KW - Levinas, Emmanuel KW - -Lévinas, E. KW - Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel KW - Levinas, Emani︠u︡el KW - לוינס׳ עמנואל KW - לוינס, עמנואל KW - Derrida, J. KW - Derida, Žak KW - Derrida, Jackes KW - Derrida, Zhak KW - Deridah, Z'aḳ KW - Deridā, Jāka KW - Dirīdā, Jāk KW - Деррида, Жак KW - Contributions in ethics. KW - Contributions in ethics KW - -History KW - -Derrida, Jacques KW - -Contributions in ethics. KW - Ethics, Modern KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel KW - Ethics. KW - דרידה, ז'אק KW - Lévinas, E. KW - Līfīnās, Īmānwāl KW - ليفيناس، إيمانوال KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel, KW - Phenomenology . KW - Religion—Philosophy. KW - Religion. KW - Modern philosophy. KW - Phenomenology. KW - Philosophy of Religion. KW - Religious Studies, general. KW - Modern Philosophy. KW - Modern philosophy KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Deconstruction. KW - Jewish ethics - History - 20th century KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 - Ethics KW - Derrida, Jacques - Ethics KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6640849 AB - Although this book is a study of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, it would be mistaken to refer to it as a comparison. The book develops a framework which might aide the reader of Levinas and Derrida in determining the scope and significance of their respective projects as far as a discourse of the sacred is concerned. It does so by emphasizing their status as philosophers whose thought correlates but does not compare. Within this correlation, without obscuring either their differences or similarities, we can see a common framework that consists of the following elements. First, it is clear from what and how Derrida and Levinas have written that the general import of their work lies in the area of ethics. However, in many ways it would be justifiable to say that their work is not about ethics at all. Neither of them proposes a moral theory; neither is interested in discussing the question of values vs. social norms, duty vs. virtue and other issues that might pertain to the area of ethics. To be sure, these issues do come up in their work, yet they are treated in a peculiarly different way. For Derrida and Levinas, ethics is not so much an inquiry into the problems of right and wrong but an inquiry into the problem of the ethical constitutedness of human beings. ER -