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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is perhaps one of the best-kept philosophical secrets of recent times. By locating ethics as first philosophy, based on the call of the other, Levinas has revolutionized the Western philosophical tradition. In effect, the perennial priority of the self is displaced by the uncanny urgency of the other. Emmanuel: Levinas and Variations on God with Us gives the reader an introduction to the life and work of this humble philosophical genius. Several applications are made of Levinas's insights: interreligious dialogue, analytic versus continental philosophy, law and freedom, maternity, childhood, hermeneutics, and ethical contemplation. Most especially, Levinas is brought into lively conversation with Jean-Luc Marion. Levinas's phenomenology of proclamation is set in confrontation with Marion's phenomenology of manifestation throughout the book. Erotic love is met with a love filled with responsibilities for the other. Mount Carmel and Mount Zion face one another in a topography of the infinite. Readers will appreciate the variety of themes treated, as well as the dynamic interaction between philosophy and theology. Given the fragmented postmodern milieux of the world today, perhaps the philosophical intuitions of Emmanuel Levinas were prepared ""for such a time as this"" (Esth 4:14).

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With an intensity, clarity, and scholarship refined, disciplined, and inspired by the profoundly Jewish and Catholic philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Wallenfang's book offers a challenging and admirable vision of religion and of Roman Catholicism in particular, rededicated to the elevating challenges of ethical responsibility--caring for the other before oneself--as the very height of holiness. --Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations Between Spinoza and Levinas Zealous truth seekers never tire of dubbing what refuses expression in words yet whose presence is incontestable. Despite the incommensurability of any search for truth, those who devote their lives to this ineffable experience are drawn to others who share the same vocation. Emmanuel is exactly of this kind. No less than this book is about Emmanuel Levinas, it is about its author. In this respect, the first-name title also implies the life choice of the author, Donald Wallenfang. --Ronny Miron, author of Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality

With an intensity, clarity, and scholarship refined, disciplined, and inspired by the profoundly Jewish and Catholic philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Wallenfang's book offers a challenging and admirable vision of religion and of Roman Catholicism in particular, rededicated to the elevating challenges of ethical responsibility--caring for the other before oneself--as the very height of holiness. --Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations Between Spinoza and Levinas Zealous truth seekers never tire of dubbing what refuses expression in words yet whose presence is incontestable. Despite the incommensurability of any search for truth, those who devote their lives to this ineffable experience are drawn to others who share the same vocation. Emmanuel is exactly of this kind. No less than this book is about Emmanuel Levinas, it is about its author. In this respect, the first-name title also implies the life choice of the author, Donald Wallenfang. --Ronny Miron, author of Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality

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Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is professor of theology and philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. He is the author and editor of several books, including Phenomenology: A Basic Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ (Cascade, 2019), Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key (Cascade, 2019), Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Cascade, 2017), and Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology (Cascade, 2017).

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