Lévinas, (Book Supplement Series to the Journal of Chinese Philosophy)

Nicholas Bunnin is Director of the Philosophy Project, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford and Chairman of the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China. He co-edited Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell 2002) and has written on Chinese and comparative philosophy. He co-edited The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (1997, 2nd edition 2003) and co-authored The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy (2004).

Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century's most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers. For Chinese philosophers there are special reasons to pursue an interest in Lévinas, centering on his regard for ethics, rather than Husserlian epistemology or Heideggerian ontology, as first philosophy, a perspective that can be compared to the priority of a moral metaphysics for major figures in contemporary Neo-Confucianism. The thirteen outstanding contributors explain and assess other crucial features of Lévinas's philosophy with clarity, elegance and powerful insight.

CHUNG-YING CHENG / Preface. NICHOLAS BUNNIN / Introduction. YANG DACHUN / Levinas and the Three Dimensions of Surpassing Phenomenology. JACQUES TAMINIAUX / Levinas and Heidegger: A Post-Heidegarrian Approach to Phenomenological Issues DU XIAOZHEN / The Philosophy of Saintliness: Some Notes on the Thought of Levinas. MO WEIMIN / Phenomenology or Anti-Phenomenology? -A Study of the Subject in Levinas. SIMON CRITCHLEY / The Split Subject. WANG LIPING / Transcendence or Immanence? Levinas, Bergson, and Chinese Thought. WANG HENG / The Instant as the Key to the Escape from Being on Levinas's Phenomenology of Sensibility and Time in His Early Period MARIE-ANNE LESCOURRET / Desire by Levinas. SHANG JIE / The Phenomenology of Death. WANG TANGJIA / The Concepts of Death in Heidegger and Levinas SUN XIANGCHEN / Emmanuel Levinas and the Critique of Modern Political Philosophy. ROBERT BERNASCONI / Extraterritoriality: Outside the Subject, Outside the State. DORIAN WISZNIEWSKI / "The Space of Communicativity": Levinas and Architecture.