Radical Passivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Passivity write by Benda Hofmeyr. This book was released on 2009-01-21. Radical Passivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .
Radical Passivity
Radical Passivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Passivity write by Thomas Carl Wall. This book was released on 1999-01-28. Radical Passivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Blanchot's aesthetics, or Agamben's community must begin with an understanding of a "logic" of passivity that in fact originates (in the modern era at least) in Kant's analysis of the transcendental schema.
Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence
Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence write by Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani. This book was released on 2014-02-05. Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French philosopher and Talmudic commentator Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) has received considerable attention for his influence on philosophical and religious thought. In this book, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani provides the first examination of the applicability of Emmanuel Levinas’ work to social and political movements. Investigating his ethics of responsibility and his critique of the Western liberal imagination, Tahmasebi-Birgani advances the moral, political, and philosophical debates on the radical implications of Levinas’ work. Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence is the first book to closely consider the affinity between Levinas’ ethical vision and Mohandas Gandhi’s radical yet non-violent political struggle. Situating Levinas’ insights within a transnational, transcontinental, and global framework, Tahmasebi-Birgani highlights Levinas’ continued relevance in an age in which violence is so often resorted to in the name of “justice” and “freedom.”
The Subject(s) of Phenomenology
The Subject(s) of Phenomenology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subject(s) of Phenomenology write by Iulian Apostolescu. This book was released on 2019-12-19. The Subject(s) of Phenomenology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together established researchers and emerging scholars alike to discuss new readings of Husserl and to reignite the much needed discussion of what phenomenology actually is and can possibly be about, this volume sets out to critically re-evaluate (and challenge) the predominant interpretations of Husserl’s philosophy, and to adapt phenomenology to the specific philosophical challenges and context of the 21st century. “What is phenomenology?”, Maurice Merleau-Ponty asks at the beginning of his Phenomenology of Perception – and he continues: “It may seem strange that this question still has to be asked half a century after the first works of Husserl. It is, however, far from being resolved.” Even today, more than half a century after Merleau-Ponty’s magnum opus, the answer is in many ways still up for grasp. While it may seem obvious that the main subject of phenomenological inquiry is, in fact, the subject, it is anything but self evident what this precisely implies: Considering the immense variety of different themes and methodological self-revisions found in Husserl’s philosophy – from its Brentanian beginnings to its transcendental re-interpretation and, last but not least, to its ‘crypto-deconstruction’ in the revisions of his early manuscripts and in his later work –, one cannot but acknowledge the fact that ‘the’ subject of phenomenology marks an irreducible plurality of possible subjects. Paying tribute to this irreducible plurality the volume sets out to develop interpretative takes on the phenomenological tradition which transcend both its naive celebration and its brute rejection, to re-articulate the positions of other philosophers within the framework of Husserl’s thought, and to engage in an investigative dialogue between traditionally opposed camps within phenomenology and beyond.
Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception
Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception write by Kascha Semonovitch. This book was released on 2010-05-20. Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely and important collection of essays examining Merleau-Ponty's interrogation of the limits of philosophy.
