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Levinas, Adorno, and the ethics of the material other /
"This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address today's environmental and social-political situation. The chapters focus on critical natural history and the environmental crisis (part 1), religion, prophecy, and the good (part 2)...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Suny series in contemporary French thought
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On the Way to an Ethics of Material Others
- Opening Reflections
- Ethical Imperfection and the Priority of the Material Other
- The Ethics of Alterity and the Negative Dialectics of Nonidentity
- A Materialist Interpretation of Nonidentity and the Other
- Other-Constitution and Aporetic Thinking
- An Overview of the Work and Its Motivating Questions
- Nature, Religion, and Justice
- Perfection and Imperfection
- Why Levinas? Why Adorno?
- Three Queries about Ethics
- Historical Contexts and Critical Departures
- Marxism, Phenomenology, and New Critical Models
- Cacophonies and Dissonances
- Phenomenology and Antiphenomenology
- Conclusion
- Part I After Nature: Ethics, Natural History, and Environmental Crisis
- 1 Toward a Critical Ecological Model of Natural History
- Introduction to Part One
- Natural History and the Politics of Nature
- Natural History and a Nature Still to Come
- The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Damaged Life, and the Contemporary Ecological Crisis
- Aporetic Materialism and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Conclusion and Transition
- 2 Natural History, Nonidentity, and Ecological Crisis
- Introduction: Kant, Constitutive Idealism, and the Mythology of Reason
- Communicative Idealism or Natural History?
- Nature as Ideology and Ethics
- Historical Nature and Natural History
- Materiality and a Critical Ethos of Nature
- Conclusion
- 3 Communicative Interaction or Natural History? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature
- Introduction: The Renunciation of Nature in Habermas and Hegel
- Intersubjective Idealism in Habermas's Critique of Adorno
- Enlightenment and the Domination of Nature
- The Asymmetrical Primacy and Intermateriality of the Object
- Mimesis as Reification and Responsiveness
- Art and Nature between Suffering and Happiness
- Music, Listening, and the Ethical
- Mending Natural History
- Animality, Happiness, and the Promises of Damaged Life
- 4 The Trouble with Life: Life-Philosophy, Antinaturalism, and Transcendence in Levinas
- The Antinaturalism of Classical Phenomenology
- Against Heidegger, Ontology, and Nature
- Holy and Unholy Lands
- Levinas, Heidegger, and Cryptonaturalism
- Levinas and the Other-Transcendence of Life
- Nature, Life, and History
- Nature and Justice
- Conclusion: Living beyond Idealism
- 5 An Ethics of Nature at the End of Nature
- Introduction: Nature and History
- Disturbing Nature: Levinas and the Ethics of Other Animals
- Natural Histories: Adorno on Animals and Environments
- Adorno and the Culture of Nature
- Ethical Responsiveness, Imperfectionism, and Minimalism
- Conclusion and Transition to Part Two
- Part II Unsettling Religion: Suffering, Prophecy, and the Good
- 6 Religion, Suffering, and Damaged Life: Nietzsche, Marx, and Adorno
- Introduction to Part Two
- Religion as and against Power