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Political Responsibility for a Globalised World : After Levinas' Humanism.
The aim of this book is to reflect on the complex practice of responsibility within the context of a globalised world and contemporary means of action. Levinas' exploration of the ethical serves as point of entry and is shown to be seeking inter-cultural political relevance through engagement w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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transcript Verlag,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas' philosophy; 1 Orientation: Levinas as political philosopher; 2 "There are always at least three ... ": Urgency and primacy of the political relation; 2.1 The constitution of political meaning; 2.2 Politics: the indispensable translation of the Saying to the Said; 3 Clarifications on the title; PART 1. ETHICS AFTER THE COLONIES: THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF LEVINAS' POLITICAL THOUGHT; Chapter 2. Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation
- 1 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, or the use of ethnography for ontology and politics1.1 "To be is to participate"; 1.2 Heidegger, nostalgia, cruelty and the eclipse of monotheism; 1.3 Ethnography, ontology and socio-political criticism; 2 Claude Lévi-Strauss, decolonisation and indifference; 3 Conclusion: the politics of Levinas' philosophy of alterity; Chapter 3. The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point; 1 From situated thought to global consequences; 2 Decolonisation, colonisation: figures of the global; 3 For a globalised world
- PART 2. LEVINAS' POST-ANTI-HUMANIST HUMANISM AND AFTERChapter 4. Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas' reflection on Jewish education; 1 "For a Hebraic humanism"; 2 "Anti-humanism and education"; 3 Universalism and authority: an uncertain conclusion; 4 Changing of the guards: Talmudic humanism and a philosophical post-anti-humanist humanism; Chapter 5. Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other; 1 First attempts at a political and ontological formulation of the problem; 2 The crisis of humanism; 2.1 End of the subject; 2.2 Questioning the rationality of the animal rationale
- 2.3 Cultural relativity or the death of God3 Humanism and ethicity; 4 "Ethical culture" and the "cultural and aesthetic notion of meaning"; 5 "Real humanism": an un-likely family portrait; 5.1 Sartre: humanism as existentialism; 5.2 Heidegger: "humanism" in the extreme sense; 5.3 Althusser: humanism as ideology; Chapter 6. After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility; 1 Universalism and particularism: Marion and Bernasconi; 2 Responsibility and irresponsibility; 2.1 Can a Levinasian kill? From the original contradiction to the participation of practice in the meaning of the ethical
- 2.2 Infinite responsibility and the polysemy of transgression2.3 Mediation: the irreducible political condition of responsibility; 3 After Levinas; PART 3. POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD; Chapter 7. Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics; 1 An inhospitable world: disenchantment and polytheism in Weber and Levinas; 2 Levinas: a Gesinnungsethiker or a Verantwortungsethiker?; 2.1 The prima facie case for Levinas as "ethicist of principle"; 2.2 Levinas as political "ethicist of responsibility."