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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Wolff, Ernst, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2011
Piscataway, NJ : [2014]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Being human (Bielefeld, Germany) ; v. 11.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Editorial 2 Table of contents 7 Preface 11 Chapter 1 Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas' philosophy 17 Chapter 2 Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation 33 Chapter 3 The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point 59 Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism and after 77 Chapter 4 Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas' reflection on Jewish education 83 Chapter 5 Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other1 105 Chapter 6 After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility 147 Political Responsibility for a Globalised World 175 Chapter 7 Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics 179 Chapter 8 Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel 205 Chapter 9 Ricoeur's contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world 221 CONCLUSION 267 Bibliography 273 284