Kleinberg-Levin Before the Voice of Reason

Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7782-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. A Human Voice 2. The Project 3. The Ethical Root of the Voice 4. The Voice of Reason 5. Reconciling Voices: the Political Register 6. Conversation 7. Reading This Book Part I. The Singing of the World Variations on a Theme After Merleau-Ponty Chapter 1. The Remembrance of Nature in the Voice of the Subject 1. Invocations of Nature 2. The Song of the Winds 3. The Song of the Earth Chapter 2. The Question of Origins 1. Silence 2. Song Chapter 3. The Voice of Ecological Attunement in a Practice of Caring for the Self 1. Prologue 2. The Singing of Language 3. Caring for Oneself: The Three Phase-Dimensions of the Voice 4. Dying Echoes: What Must Be Remembered Part II. Levinas On the Claim of the Ethical Chapter 4. The Saying and the Said: Giving Time to the Voice of the Other 1. Unavoidable Violence 2. Responsibility: Claiming the Voice 3. Inspiration 4. Heterology, Heteronomy: The Lyrical Voice 5. The Ethical Dimensions of the Voice 6. Ethical Saying: The Claim in Dialogue Chapter 5. The Pre-Originary Dimension of Saying 1. Preliminary Soundings 2. The Voice of Reason 3. The Pre-Originary Voice 4. Palimpsest: The Trace of the Other in the Text of our Flesh, or, The Echo of the Other in the Trembling of the Flesh 5. Enigmatic Echoes: Retrieving the Trace Epilogue
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Michael Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of several books, including Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger and The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment.