Meaning and Melancholy in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

Stine Holte

Nov 2014 · Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) Book 18 · Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Although considered as one of the 20th century most central ethical thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas claimed that his task was not to construct an ethics, but to seek the meaning of the ethical. In this study Stine Holte examines the problem of ethical meaning in Levinas' thinking and shows how the articulation of the ethical implies notions like trauma, melancholy, and shame, and hence a questioning of what we normally regard as meaningful.

About the author

Trygve Wyller is Professor Emeritus in Diaconal Studies and Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo and Honorary Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has written extensively on space, ecclesiology, migration, phenomenology, ethics and relevant Scandinavian Creation Theology-issues. Some of his recent publications are Diaconia/Empowering/Social Development, in the International Handbook of Practical Theology (2022); and Liberating, Spatial Theology. Some Reflections on How Theology Can Transform, in Dialogue with Gerald West (2024). Email: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Heinz Streib ist Seniorprofessor für Forschung an der Universität Bielefeld und Leiter der Forschungsstelle Biographische Religionsforschung.

Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati ist Professorin für Religionswissenschaft und Religionsgeschichte an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität München.

Dr. theol. Hans-Günter Heimbrock ist emeritierter Professor für Praktische Theologie am Fachbereich Ev. Theologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.

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