Левинас Э. Избранное. Тотальность и Бесконечное / Леви-Стросс К. Мифологики. Том 2. От меда к пеплу

Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995), a French philosopher and moralist, formulated the universal moral maxim, or imperative, in a new form, enriching it with deep semantic content expressing the urgent spiritual needs of the era. E. Levinas developed the ethical concept of genuine relationships that would affect, transform human communication, culture as a whole; The moral and metaphysical principles of the teachings of E. Levinas are based on a critical analysis of the spiritual situation of modern Western society. Developing traditions dating back to M. Buber, G. Marcel, M. Bakhtin, and other outstanding thinkers of the era, E. Levinas comes to the conclusion that philosophy is, first of all, the wisdom of compassion, the wisdom of love.

This volume includes the following works by E. Levinas: "From Existence to the Existing", "Totality and the Infinite", "Foreshortenings" and a number of others, as well as an essay dedicated to the work of E. Levinas by Jacques Derrida "Violence and metaphysics.

K. Levi-Strauss is a French philosopher, ethnographer and sociologist, one of the main representatives of French structuralism, a researcher of primitive kinship systems, mythology and folklore. His works have gained worldwide fame and have had a great influence in many areas of philosophical and cultural studies. A key place in the work of Levi-Strauss is occupied by the study of mythology and folklore, he is called the father of the structural typology of myth as the most important part of structural anthropology. Levi-Strauss made the transition from the symbolic theory of myth (Jung, Cassirer) to the actual structural one, using the operational methods of information theory and structural linguistics. Translation by N.B. Mankovskaya.