[MaFLa] invitation to a talk on `Love and Desire in Nietzsche and Levinas` by Fiona Ellis - Tuesday, 30 January, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103

[Krisztina Biber]

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Fiona Ellis (Heythrop College London)
On

Love and Desire in Nietzsche and Levinas

Tuesday, 30 January, 2018, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103


ABSTRACT

Nietzsche and Levinas both operate with a conception of insatiable desire, and they agree that desire, thus understood, is central to our proper humanity. The difference, however, is that Levinas articulates his position from within a theistic framework, albeit one in which God is seemingly absent. I argue that the differences between their positions are less striking than first appears, and that there is a knife edge between Nietzsche's atheism and Levinas's theism. I consider the implications for an understanding of desire, and for an assessment of the positions at hand


Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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