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Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas
Benda . Ed(S): Hofmeyr
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Description for Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas
hardcover. This multiperspectical volume brings together a host of renowned Levinas scholars in an attempt to critically reflect upon the ethical significance of radical passivity. Contributions cover the entire scope of this notion's evolution within Levinas's thought. Editor(s): Hofmeyr, Benda. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Series
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402093463
SKU
V9781402093463
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