Peter Atterton, Ph.D.
University of Essex, England
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Publications

Authored Books

On Levinas (with Matthew Calarco) (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004).

Edited Books

Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. V (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2010).

Radicalizing Levinas (with Matthew Calarco) (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010).

Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (with Matthew Calarco and Maurice Friedman) (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004).
Translated into Spanish: Levinas y Buber, diálogo y diferencias (Argentina: Lilmod Ediciones, 2005).

Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought (with Matthew Calarco, and with a preface by Peter Singer) (New York: Continuum, 2004).

The Continental Ethics Reader (with Matthew Calarco) (London: Routledge, 2003).

Refereed Journal Articles

“Levinas and Our Moral Responsibility Toward Animals,” Inquiry 54 (6) (2011): 633-649.

“Nourishing the Hunger of the Other: A Rapprochement between Levinas and Darwin,”Symplokē 9 (1) (2011): 17-33.

“Morality in the Laboratory” (co-authored with Joelle Hansel). In Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. VI (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2011): 1-3.

“A Duty to Be Charitable? A Rigoristic Reading of Kant.” Kant-Studien 98 (2) (2007): 135-155.

“‘The Talking Cure’: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.” The Psychoanalytic Review 94 (4) (August 2007): 553-576.
Reprinted in Radicalizing Levinas (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010).

“Art, Religion, and Ethics Post Mortem Dei: Levinas and Dostoyevsky.” Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, Vol. II, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2007), 105-132.

“Philosophy as a Practice for Life.” Philosophical Practice 1 (2) (2005): 89-93.
 
“A Sign of Things to Come? On Emmanuel Levinas” (co-authored with Matthew Calarco and Joelle Hansel). Modern Judaism 25 (3) (2005): 285-286.

“Derrida’s Gift to Levinas: The Feminine.” International Studies in Philosophy 35 (2) (2003): 1-26.

“The Proximity Between Levinas and Kant: The Primacy of Pure Practical Reason.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40 (3) (1999): 61-77.

“Levinas’s Skeptical Critique of Metaphysics and Anti-humanism.” Philosophy Today 41 (4) (1997): 491-506.
Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, vol. 1, ed. Claire Katz with Lara Trout (New York: Routledge, 2005), 7-31.

“Power’s Blind Struggle for Existence: Foucault, Genealogy and Darwinism.” History of the Human Sciences Journal 7 (4) (1994): 1-20.

“Levinas and the Language of Peace: A Response to Derrida.” Philosophy Today 36 (1) (1992): 59-70.

Book Chapters

"Dignity and the Other: Dignity and the Phenomenological Tradition." Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity, eds. Marcus Duwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, and Dietmar Mieth (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, forthcoming 2012).

“Facing Animals.” Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought, eds. William Edelglass, Christian Diehm and James Hatley (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2012), 25-39.

“Editor’s Introduction: The Early Levinas (1930–49) and the Escape from Being.” In Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. 5, ed. Peter Atterton (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2010), pp. vii-xiv.

“Editors’ Introduction: The Third Wave of Levinas Scholarship” (with Matthew Calarco). In Radicalizing Levinas, eds. Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010), pp. ix-xvii.

“Levinas, Justice, and Just War.” Levinas in Jerusalem, ed. Joelle Hansel (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008), 141-153.

“Ethical Cynicism.” In Animal Philosophy (New York: Continuum, 2004), 51-61.
 
“Face-to-Face with the Other Animal?” In Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004), 262-281.
Translated into Spanish: “Cara a cara con lo otro no humano,” in Levinas y Buber, diálogo y diferencias [Argentina: Lilmod Ediciones, 2005).

“Emmanuel Levinas.” In Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Eds. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 231-8.

“From Transcendental Freedom to the Other” In In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the 18th Century. Eds. Melvyn New, Robert Bernasconi, and Richard A. Cohen (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2001), 327-54.

Reviews

Review of Michael L. Morgan, The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas (Cambridge UP, 2011). In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 18, 2011, 8 pp.

Review of Michael L. Morgan, Discovering Levinas (Cambridge UP, 2008). In Perspectives on Political Science 36, 4, Fall 2007.

Review of Lynne Sharpe, Creatures Like Us? (Imprint Academic, 2005). In Times Literary Supplement, June 2005, 29.

Translations

Josy Eisenberg & Emmanuel Levinas, " An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas." In Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. VI (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2011): 3-8.

Emmanuel Levinas, "The Meaning of Religious Practice." Modern Judaism 25, 3 (2005): 286-289.
Reprinted in Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. 5, ed. Peter Atterton (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2010).

Emmanuel Levinas, "On Buber" (Interview). In Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003).

Emmanuel Levinas, "Substitution" (with Graham Noctor). In Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Eds. Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley and Adriaan Peperzak (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 79-95.

Emmanuel Levinas, "Peace and Proximity." In Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 161-69.

Emmanuel Levinas, "Is Ontology Fundamental?" In Philosophy Today 33, 2 (1989): 121-29.
(Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Eds. Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley and Adriaan Peperzak (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 1-10.)

Web Sites

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