Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

by Will Buckingham
Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

by Will Buckingham

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Overview

The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas's work. By asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas's ethics of responsibility.

It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with ethical dangers; but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441134905
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 02/14/2013
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 261 KB

About the Author


Will Buckingham is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. In addition to philosophy, he also writes fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Levinas and Storytelling\Part I: Philosophers and Storytellers\1. Of Stars and Scientists\2. Storytelling into Life\3. Scientist Turned Storyteller?\Part II: Stories\4. The Story of the Book\5. Horror Stories\6. Idylls and Heroes\7. The Idyll Eroticised\8. Strangers and Quests\9. A Tale of Generations\10. Many Tales, Many Tellers\Part III: Anti-Stories\11. No More Stories\12. The Trouble With Literature\13. Setting Magic Against Magic\14. Otherwise than Being\15. Tracking Trauma in the Text\Part IV: Otherwise\16. Beyond\17. In the Court of the Great Khan\18. Overcoming the Fear of Being\Notes\Bibliography\Index
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