For You Alone: Emmanuel Levinas and the Answerable Life - eBook
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For You Alone: Emmanuel Levinas and the Answerable Life - eBook  -     By: Terry A. Veling

For You Alone: Emmanuel Levinas and the Answerable Life - eBook

Cascade Books / 2014 / ePub

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Title: For You Alone: Emmanuel Levinas and the Answerable Life - eBook
By: Terry A. Veling
Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: Cascade Books
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9781630872243
ISBN-13: 9781630872243
Stock No: WW110735EB

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The works of Emmanuel Levinas, a survivor of the Nazi horror, are striking in the constancy of their thought and the strength of their appeal. We are not condemned to evil and hatred; rather, we are called to be-for-each-other. For You Alone explores the relational and religious quality of Levinas' work. Our lives are always twofold rather than "one and the same." A relational life is dependent on encounters that are revelatory. Revelation means that life is no mere sameness but is tied to the revelation of the other, to you. Here is transcendence par excellence. Here is what the name of God signifies, the relational and ethical bond that takes us outside ourselves toward the other in our midst. What could be more natural, more human, or more divine than to speak of the relational quality of life? An answerable life means that we are asked after, called, required. "Here I am under your gaze," Levinas writes, "obliged to you, your servant. In the name of God."

Author Bio

Terry A. Veling teaches at St. Paul's Theological College, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane. He also taught for many years in the United States and was a Golda Meir Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent books are The Beatitude of Mercy (2010) and Practical Theology (2005).

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