Description: Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy's most pressing issues.
Brief description: Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.
Review Quotes:
"The political background to the debate between Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas has often distorted the philosophical dispute ... Fortunately, this volume approaches the debate with a clear view of the philosophical issue. It avoids polemically misconstruing Heidegger's thought without making light of Levinas's modification of it." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews