Altared Ground

One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In <strong></strong><strong><em>Altared Ground: Levinas History and Violence</em></strong> Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas one of the leading figures in 20th century Continental philosophy and Plato Hegel Heidegger Nietzsche Merleau-Ponty Derrida and others in the history of ideas. Not merely an exposition of Levinas' original and complex thinking Brian Schroeder seeks to re-read the history of Western philosophy and religion by going beyond Levinas' alternatives to traditional theories of the self in order to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence.