The Problem with Levinas

The Problem with Levinas by Simon Critchley


2015 | ISBN: 0198738765 | English | 160 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB

The Problem with Levinas

The Problem with Levinas by Simon Critchley and Alexis Dianda


English | 2015 | ISBN: 0198738765 | 160 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Levinas"s idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon Critchley"s aim in this book is to provide a less familiar, more troubling, and (hopefully) truer account of Levinas"s work. A new dramatic method for reading Levinas is proposed, where the fundamental problem of his work is seen as the attempt to escape from the tragedy of Heidegger"s philosophy and the way in which that philosophy shaped political events in the last century. Extensive and careful attention is paid to Levinas" fascinating but often overlooked work from the 1930s, where the proximity to Heidegger becomes clearer. Levinas"s problem is very simple: how to escape from the tragic fatality of being as described by Heidegger. Levinas"s later work is a series of attempts to answer that problem through claims about ethical selfhood and a series of phenomenological experiences, especially erotic relations and the relation to the child. These claims are analyzed in the book through close textual readings. Critchley reveals the problem with Levinas"s answer to his own philosophical question and suggests a number of criticisms, particular concerning the question of gender. In the final, speculative part of the book, another answer to Levinas"s problem is explored through a reading of the Song of Songs and the lens of mystical love.

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Gentzens Problem: Mathematische Logik im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland

Eckart Menzler-Trott, "Gentzens Problem: Mathematische Logik im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland"


2001 | German | ISBN-10: 3034895178 | 411 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Gerhard Gentzen (1909-1945) ist der Begründer der modernen mathematischen Beweistheorie. Die nachhaltige Bedeutung seiner Arbeiten zeigt sich bis heute in der Informatik und beeindruckt durch Einsicht und Eleganz. Der Autor dokumentiert in dieser ersten umfassenden Biografie Leben und Werk Gerhard Gentzens, seinen tragischen Lebensweg: Festnahme 1945 in Prag, Gefangenschaft und Tod. Plus: zahlreiche, bislang unveröffentlichte Dokumente und Fotos.

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The Classical Decision Problem

The Classical Decision Problem by Egon Börger


English | Jan. 15, 1997 | ISBN: 354057073X | 482 Pages | DJVU | 5.98 MB

This is the most comprehensive treatment available in book form of the classical decision problem of mathematical logic and of the role of the classical decision problem in modern computer science. A revealing analysis of the natural order of decidable and undecidable cases is given. The complete classification of the solvable and unsolvable standard cases of the classical decision problem will be of particular interest to the reader. The classification comes complete with the complexity analysis of the solvable cases, with the comprehensive treatment of the reduction method, and with the model-theoretical analysis of solvable cases. Many cases are treated here for the first time, and a great number of simple proofs and exercises have been included. The results and methods of the book are extensively used in logic, computer science and artificial intelligence.

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