De L'Évasion (On Escape).

LEVINAS, Emmanuel.

Verlag: Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1982

Beschreibung

Half -title + TP + 7-8 = Foreword + Half-title + 10-[122] + [125] = Author's works + [127] = Printer's information, Octavo. First Edition.Printed in a limited edition of just 1,000 copies. Originally published in 1935 by the French journal Recherches Philosophiques, this work marks Levinas' idiosyncratic yet noteworthy attempt to break with the persistent focus on existence generally maintained by Western tradition for centuries. Here, the eponymous "escape" refers to the escape from being that Levinas understands as necessary to being itself. Levinas spends the book bolstering this point by winding through a a series of phenomenological analyses of what might provide this escape - pleasure, shame, nausea, focus. This work comes early in Levinas's career, and maintains a sort of youthful attitude toward what kind of escape from being might be possible - and how this escape might also prove therapeutic. Levinas is thinking of this sort of "escape from being" not just as an escape from the anguish, desperation, and forlornness that constitutes everyday existence - as per his colleague Jean-Paul Sartre - but also as a sense of liberation from political and social constrictions.In place of full-blown revolution, Levinas argues, one can find solace in an escape from being. Original publisher's light grey card covers with purple lettering to the front cover. A nice, tight, and bright copy of this unique work by Levinas. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1476

Bibliografische Details

Titel: De L'Évasion (On Escape).

Verlag: Fata Morgana, Montpellier

Erscheinungsdatum: 1982

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: FIRST EDITION.