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008			230710s1998 gw sb 001 0 eng d
020			_a9789004454873 _q(electronic book)
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024	7		_a10.1163/9789004454873 _2DOI
035			_z(OCoLC)40843957
040			_aNL-LeKB _cNL-LeKB _erda
041			_aeng
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072		7	_aSOC _x026000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a175.092 _223
100	1		_aChampagne, Roland A., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas / _cRoland A. Champagne.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c1998.
264		4	_c©1998
300			_a1 online resource (204 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aChiasma ; _v7
490	1		_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Acknowledgments / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Introduction / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 1 The Eibical Contract and the Song of Songs / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 2 The Call of the Other in Svevo’s Humor / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 3 Reading and the Politics of Céline / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 4 Responsibility and Violence in Nizan / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 5 The Sovereignty and Solidarity in Zola / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 6 The Asymmetry of the Face-to-Face in Maupassant / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 7 The Woman as Other in Breton’s Nadja / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 8 The Ethical Self in Drieu’s Gilles / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 9 Hannah Arendt’s Ethical Response / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Chapter 10 The Vulnerability of Bernard-Henri Lévy / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Conclusion / _rRoland A. Champagne -- Bibliography / _rRoland A. Champagne.
520			_aReading a text is an ethical activity for Emmanuel Levinas. His moral philosophy considers written texts to be natural places to discover relations of responsibility in Western philosophical systems which are marked by extreme violence and totalizing hatred. While ethics is understood to mean a relationship with the other and reading is the appropriation of the other to the self, readings according to Levinas naturally entail relationships with the other. Levinas's own writings are often frought with the struggle between his own maleness, the concerns of feminism, and the Judaism that marks his contributions to the debates of the Talmud. This book uses male feminism as its perspective in presenting the applications of Levinas's ethical vision to texts whose readings have presented moral dilemmas for women readers. Levinas's philosophical theories can provide keys to unlock the difficulties of these texts whose readings will provide models of reading as ethical acts beginning with the ethical contract in Song of Songs where the assumption of a woman writer begins the elaboration of issues that sets a male reader as her other. From the reader's vantage point of seeing the self as other, other issues of male feminism become increasingly poignant, ranging from the solicitude of listening to Céline (Chapter 2), the responsibility for noise in Nizan (Chapter 3), the asymmetrical pattern of face-to-face relationships in Maupassant (Chapter 4), the sovereignty of laughter in Bataille and Zola (Chapter 5), the call of the other in Italo Svevo (Chapter 6), the Woman as Other in Breton (Chapter 7), the ethical self in Drieu la Rochelle (Chapter 8), the response to Hannah Arendt (Chapter 9), and the vulnerability of Bernard-Henri Lévy (Chapter 10). The male feminist reader is thus the incarnation of the struggle at the core of the issues outlined by Levinas for the act of reading as an ethical endeavor.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aLevinas, Emmanuel _d(1906-1995)
650		0	_aEthics.
650		0	_aLiterary ethics.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998. _z9789051839197
830		0	_aChiasma ; _v7.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004454873
999			_c39425 _d39425