[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

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Tárgy: [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



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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