Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch

Marguerite La Caze is associate professor in philosophy at the University of Queensland.Magdalena Zolkos is Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

• Introduction, Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena ZolkosChapter 1. Giulia Maniezzi, The Metaphysics of Love and Theory of Forgiveness in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s PhilosophyChapter 2. José Manuel Beato, Paradoxes of Virtue in the Moral Philosophy of Vladimir JankélévitchChapter 3. Marguerite La Caze, “I Can’t Beat It”: Dimensions of the Bad Conscience in Manchester by the SeaChapter 4. Tim Flanagan, An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and PlotinusChapter 5: Aaron T. Looney, Speaking in the Night: On the Non-Sense of Death… and LifeChapter 6. Francesco Ferrari, Vladimir Jankélévitch’s ‘Diseases of Temporality’ and Their Impact on Reconciliatory ProcessesChapter 7. Andrew Kelley, Jankélévitch and the Metaphysics of HumilityChapter 8. Magdalena Zolkos, The Work of Remorse. Jankélévitchean Tropes in François Ozon’s FrantzChapter 9. Clovis Salgado Gontijo, The Philosophy of the je-ne-sais-quoi and the Possibility of a Non-religious SpiritualityChapter 10. Paul Atkinson, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Henri Bergson and the Emergence of a Transitory Aesthetics

This timely volume provides the best and most expansive investigation of Vladimir Jankélévitch’s 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.