Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence, first published in 1974, is the second of Levinas's mature philosophical works, the first being Totality and Infinity (first published in 1961). Otherwise than Being is essentially the sequel to Totality and Infinity, further elaborating the rich and comprehensive philosophy of ethical metaphysics that Levinas had introduced in the earlier work. At the h…
Of the many questions provoked by Heidegger's thought and writing, that of his political destiny is perhaps the most fraught. Was his work, as Adorno suggested, fascistic to its very roots, or is this a misrepresention of one of the very greatest radical thinkers? Heidegger's muted but consistent approval of National Socialism, the unsatisfactoriness of his later explanations and the silence he…
The only book on Raymond Aron in English, Robert Colquhoun's brilliant biography is an intellectual and literary tour de force. The first volume, The Philosopher in History, 1905-55, is examines the development of his philosophical stance in the turbulent years before the Second World War. It explores his opposition to Fascism and Communism and his achievement as a journalist and polemicist in …