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The North American Levinas Society (NALS) 2021 International Conference, “Solidarity and Community,” will take place
July 26th-29th, 2021 online via zoom.
The synchronous conference will meet from 11:00a - 4:30p EST, (UTC-4) daily.
This conference will draw on the teaching and writing of Emmanuel Levinas to explore the meaning of community and what it means to live in solidarity with one another.
The 2021 conference features 48 presentations from presenters around the world.
There will be one book session with Annabel Herzog, highlighting her newly published book on Levinas, with responses from Deborah Achtenberg and Martin Shuster.
There will be two Keynote Addresses, by Richard Sugarman and by Helen Douglas.
Recent Articles
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Environmental Philosophy
Vol. 13, Issue 1 | Spring 2016
"On Becoming Human in Lingít Aaní: Encountering Levinas Through Indigenous Inspirations"
Sol Neely, Univ. of Alaska
Political Phenomenology
Vol. 84 of Contributions to Phenomenology | June 2016
"Political Phenomenology: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political"
Richard Sugarman, Univ. of Vermont
Featured Resources
On "Ethics as First Philosophy" (1984). More existentialist ethics, with a Jewish twist this time! Seth rejoins Mark and Wes to discuss this difficult essay, with a bit of "Time and the Other" (1948) and "There Is: Existence Without Existents" (1946) thrown in, too.
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Podcast
THE PARTIALLY EXAMINED LIFE
Episode 145 |22 Aug 2016
"Emmanuel Levinas: Why Be Ethical? (Part One)"
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The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma
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December 2017
Monica Osborne
This study explores what it means for the world of literature to renounce the language of representation and retain the language of witness. Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Geoffrey Hartman, and others the book focuses on the increasing tendency of contemporary writers to rely on non-representational approaches to storytelling in the context of trauma. This tendency is named the “midrashic impulse”...
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Sandor Goodhart
Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness
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August 2017
Challenging customary “aesthetic” assumptions that we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write to die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights proposes that all literature works “autobiographically”, which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo “I died; therefore, I am”...
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