Nelson Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8025-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Eric S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Way to an Ethics of Material Others

Part I: After Nature: Ethics, Natural History, and Environmental Crisis

1. Toward a Critical Ecological Model of Natural History

2. Natural History, Nonidentity, and Ecological Crisis

3. Communicative Interaction or Natural History? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

4. The Trouble with Life: Life-Philosophy, Antinaturalism, and Transcendence in Levinas

5. An Ethics of Nature at the End of Nature

Part II: Unsettling Religion: Suffering, Prophecy, and the Good

6. Religion, Suffering, and Damaged Life: Nietzsche, Marx, and Adorno

7. The Disturbance of the Ethical: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and Abraham's Binding of Isaac

8. Ethics between Religiosity and Secularity: Kierkegaard and Levinas

9. Prophetic Time, Materiality, and Dignity: Bloch and Levinas

10. Ethical Imperfectionism and the Sovereignty of Good: Levinas, Løgstrup, and Murdoch

Part III: Demanding Justice: Asymmetrical Ethics and Critical Social Theory

11. Equality, Justice, and Asymmetrical Ethics

12. The Pathologies of Freedom and the Promise of Autonomy

13. The Limits of Liberalism: Cosmopolitanism, Tolerance, and Asymmetrical Ethics

14. Recognition, Nonidentity, and the Contradictions of Liberalism

Epilogue: Nourishing Life, Unrestricted Solidarity, and the Good

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.