Cargando…
Face-to-face with animals : Levinas and the animal question /
This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Extending the Boundaries of "The Ethical"; The Animal Interview: New Digitized Transcription and English Translation; Brief History of the Status of Animals in Philosophy; Twentieth-Century Animal Ethics; Utilitarianism; Deontology; Contractarianism; Human and Animal Rights; The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics; Some Facts and Figures; Thematic Overview of Essays; Notes; Abbreviations; Part I: Levinas on Animals; Chapter 1 The Animal Interview (English and French); Part II: Phenomenology
- Chapter 2 Levinas and the Other Animals: Phenomenological Analysis of ObligationThe Phenomenological Account of Being Faced; Phenomenological Critique of Levinas's Account; The Locus of the Ethical Imperative; Phenomenology of Need and Obligation; Exclusion of Other Species; The Phenomenology of Need; The Alterity of Other Species; What I Have to Do; Ethical and Juridical Theories; The Experience of Obligation and the Theory; The Uneasy Juncture of Theoretical Norms and Practical Concerns; Conflict between the Encounter and the Theory; Phenomenology of Interspecies Community; Notes
- Chapter 3 Vulnerable Lives: Levinas, Wittgenstein, and "Animals"1. Pain and Suffering; 2. The Plight of Animals; 3. An Attitude toward a (Human) Soul; 4. Human and Animal Bodies; 5. Vulnerable Lives; 6. Who Are We? Who Is the Other?; 7. Afterword; Abbreviations; Notes; Chapter 4 Dog and Philosophy: Does Bobby Have What It Takes to Be Moral?; Bobby as a Levinasian Moral Subject; Conclusion; Notes; Part III: Responsibility toward Animals; Chapter 5 Animals, Levinas, and Moral Imagination; Notes; Chapter 6 Small Justice: The Rights of the Other Animal; The Economy of Kindness; Ethical Avoidance
- The Ethics of SufferingSmall Justice; Justice or the Other?; The Rights of the Other; Notes; Chapter 7 Ecce Animot: Levinas, Derrida, and the Other Animal; Humanism, Anthropocentrism, and the Sacrifice of the Animal Other; The Animal Face: From Disavowal to Nonknowledge; Facing beyond Anthropocentrism; Notes; Chapter 8 Facing Animal Research: Levinas and Technologies of Effacement; Normative Tensions in Animal Research; Front, Habitus, and Face; Levinasian Faces; On Facing Animals: Emmanuel Meets Bobby; Technologies of Effacement: How to Systematically Avoid Facing Others
- Architectures and Built EnvironmentsEntering and Exit Procedures and Special Garments; Identification and Labeling Techniques; Experimental Protocols; Added Faces; Staining and Remaining Faces; Conclusion: Toward Humanimal Research Ethics; Notes; Part IV: Traditions: Greek/Hebrew/Asian; Chapter 9 Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal Within; Historical Precedents; Animal Greek, Human Hebrew; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 10 What Is the Trace of the Original Face? Levinas, Buddhism, and the Mystery of Animality; Animal Faces and Buddha-Nature; Transcendence and the Trace