E-grāmata: Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched

This timely volume provides the best and most expansive investigation of Vladimir Jankélévitchs thought available in English. He was an author who always felt that he would be born posthumously. This book goes a long way to making that prediction a reality. -- Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney This work masterfully treats many of Jankélévitchs important concepts and arguments, including the possibility of forgiveness, remorse, love, humility, virtue, the almost-nothing, and the je-ne-sais-quoi. The work carried out in this volume will pave the way for further study and engaged discussion of Jankélévitchs timely, singular, and creative philosophy. -- Antonio Calcagno, King's University College at Western University A necessary and challenging work, La Caze and Zolkos collection renews attention not only on Jankélévitch as a key French philosopher who wrote `for the twenty-first century, but also on Frances subsequent `moral development after the Holocaust. The essays move beyond their philosophical foci to suggest that the political and ethical elements of Jankélévitchs thought in relation to modernity, fraught as it is with the reemergence of fascism, race hatred, and Anti-Semitism, are intimately tied to conclusions Jankélévitch drew from his Holocaust experience. La Caze and Zolkos present Jankélévitchs work as a case study on how to shift the valence of `forgiveness to account for the `homelessness of the Jewish philosopher, on how to link the philosophical to the ethical. -- Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University A beloved professor at the Sorbonne, well-known in the musical and intellectual circles of his time, Vladimir Jankélévitch nonetheless felt himself to be an outsider to twentieth-century French philosophy. This collection makes the case that he is uniquely a philosopher for our times. With important essays that span the wide range of Jankélévitchs writings on remorse, forgiveness, love, death, music, metaphysics, and ethics, this volume will reward readers new to his philosophy and sharpen our sense of the philosophical and artistic legacy of a truly original thinker. -- Diane Perpich, Clemson University