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The Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas

By: Roland A. Champagne

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The Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas

By: Roland A. Champagne

Reading a text is an ethical activity for Emmanuel Levinas. His moral philosophy considers written texts to be natural places to discover relations of responsibility in Western philosophical systems which are marked by extreme violence and totalizing hatred. While ethics is understood to mean a relationship with the other and reading is the appropriation of the other to the self, readings according to Levinas naturally entail relationships with the other. Levinas's own writings are often frought with the struggle between his own maleness, the concerns of feminism, and the Judaism that marks his contributions to the debates of the Talmud. This book uses male feminism as its perspective in presenting the applications of Levinas's ethical vision to texts whose readings have presented moral dilemmas for women readers. Levinas's philosophical theories can provide keys to unlock the difficulties of these texts whose readings will provide models of reading as ethical acts beginning with the ethical contract in Song of Songs where the assumption of a woman writer begins the elaboration of issues that sets a male reader as her other. From the reader's vantage point of seeing the self as other, other issues of male feminism become increasingly poignant, ranging from the solicitude of listening to Céline (Chapter 2), the responsibility for noise in Nizan (Chapter 3), the asymmetrical pattern of face-to-face relationships in Maupassant (Chapter 4), the sovereignty of laughter in Bataille and Zola (Chapter 5), the call of the other in Italo Svevo (Chapter 6), the Woman as Other in Breton (Chapter 7), the ethical self in Drieu la Rochelle (Chapter 8), the response to Hannah Arendt (Chapter 9), and the vulnerability of Bernard-Henri Lévy (Chapter 10). The male feminist reader is thus the incarnation of the struggle at the core of the issues outlined by Levinas for the act of reading as an ethical endeavor.

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BRILL

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900445487X

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9789004454873

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

The Structuralists on Myth

By: Roland A. Champagne

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The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

The Structuralists on Myth

By: Roland A. Champagne

The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. ‘Structuralists’ attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as ‘structures’. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themselves to have talents as the collectors from myths of these bundles of information.

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241

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Routledge

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1317555937

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9781317555933

Beyond the Structuralist Myth of Ecriture

By: Roland A. Champagne

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Beyond the Structuralist Myth of Ecriture

By: Roland A. Champagne

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160

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110810956

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9783110810950

Mario Lanza

Tenor in Exile

By: Roland L. Bessette

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Mario Lanza

Tenor in Exile

By: Roland L. Bessette

Traces the life and career of the opera singer from his childhood, his recording and concert career, and his movie stardom, to his untimely death at the age of thirty-eight

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322

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574670441

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9781574670448

Nansen

The Explorer as Hero

By: Roland Huntford

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Nansen

The Explorer as Hero

By: Roland Huntford

Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle's dictum that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men'. He was not merely a pioneer in the wildly diverse fields of oceanography and skiing, but one of the founders of neurology. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time into the new Norway of Ibsen and Grieg. He was an artist and historian, a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference, where he helped the Americans in their efforts to contain the Bolsheviks. He also undertook famine relief in Russia. Finally, working for the League of Nations as both High Commissioner for Refugees and High Commissioner for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War, he became the first of the modern media-conscious international civil servants.

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528

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Abacus

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1405520329

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9781405520324

West Coast 101: a culinary road trip

By: Roland Petrov

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West Coast 101: a culinary road trip

By: Roland Petrov

Chef Roland took early retirement and immediately left on a road trip, driving the entire length of highway 101 on the West Coast of the U.S. It was over a thousand miles of beautiful scenery and delicious local food and drink, not to mention adventure. This book aims to take you along for the ride and inspire you to eat local.

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Lulu.com

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1684701503

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Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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Animal Alchemy

By: Mark Roland Langdale

Jag, short for Jaguar, was orphaned when her environmentalist parents died in the jungle saving animals’ lives. Although she was put into a care home, she ran away two years to live on the streets where she was adopted into a street gang who have now become her family. Danny, the trickster and street magician and Tiger, whose animal instincts run close to the surface, and a few others are all animal activists at heart. Although they go one night to an animal sanctuary in the country to tag the walls with graffiti, Jag gets caught in an enclosure. However, it ends up for the best as the keeper takes a shine to her and offers a part time job when she hears Jag’s affinity with the Jaguar spirit. With Jag working at the sanctuary, her gang start spending more time there to see the great Cat Man Do perform his animal magic – until one day when a tiger is let out its cage. And that is only the beginning as a villainous Cat Man begins to stalk the streets with two pet panthers out for blood, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will. With newspapers reporting maulings and deaths and Sergeant Dickins not sure what’s going on, the kids are intrigued by the reports. After witnessing an attack, the kids get sucked into this mysterious Cat Man’s idea of a theatrical villain performance – but even if they have animal instincts and spirits with them and even if the big cats are swaying to their side, should they run before they too turn prey?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803130865

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9781803130866

What Do You Really Want?

By: Roland Boike

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What Do You Really Want?

By: Roland Boike

As a child, Alex Wilkerson grew up on his familys nine-hundred-acre estate near Plainfield, Connecticut. His dream had always been to just live out his life enjoying the scenic beauty of the landscape and roaming the hills, valleys, and streams of his beloved birthright. The original nine hundred acres had been in the Wilkerson family for nine generations. The property was part of a land grant to one of his great grandfathers for his participation in the Revolutionary War against England. The dream suddenly came to an end when more than half of the land owned by the Wilkerson family was taken by eminent domain. During the Cold War, the federal government acquired 775 acres of the Wilkersons Connecticut estate for a secret military operation. Alex was enraged by the actions of the federal government for unjustly taking away his heritage. Having lost a big portion of his birthright and his direction in life, Alex closed the estate house and wandered aimlessly around the country, not knowing what it is he really wants in life. After much meditation and soul-searching, Alex decided he wanted to get revenge on the entities that unjustly took his birthright and to regain the 775 acres of land that the government took from his family. Alex set out by instigating a daring plan that would either regain the 775 acres of land or cause him to spend the remainder of his life in prison.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524592439

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Book's by Roland A. Champagne

The Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas

The Ethics of Reading According to Emmanuel Levinas

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

Beyond the Structuralist Myth of Ecriture

Beyond the Structuralist Myth of Ecriture

Mario Lanza

Mario Lanza

Nansen

Nansen

West Coast 101: a culinary road trip

West Coast 101: a culinary road trip

Animal Alchemy

Animal Alchemy

What Do You Really Want?

What Do You Really Want?

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