Radical passivity rethinking ethical agency in Levinas

Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocitie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Duwell, Marcus (-)
Otros Autores: Hofmeyr, Benda
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Library of ethics and applied philosophy ; 20.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009445083606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing Radical Passivity
  • Editor's Introduction: Passivity as Necessary Condition for Ethical Agency?
  • Radical Passivity: Ethical Problem or Solution?
  • Radical Passivity in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (Lectures of 1954)
  • Radical Passivity and the Self
  • Sincerely Yours. Towards a Phenomenology of Me
  • Sincerely Me. Enjoyment and the Truth of Hedonism
  • Radical Passivity as Basis for Effective Ethical Action?
  • The Fundamental Ethical Experience
  • Radical Passivity as the (Only) Basis for Effective Ethical Action. Reading the ‘Passage to the Third ’ in Otherwise than Being
  • Radical Passivity and Levinas's Talmudic Readings
  • Listening to the Language of the Other
  • Ab-Originality: Radical Passivity through Talmudic Reading
  • L'Être Entre les Lettres. Creation and Passivity in ‘And God Created Woman’.