Overview
- This edited collection is the first in its kind to focus on the subject of radical passivity and to directly address criticisms leveled against Levinas’s prioritization of the Other as ethical cornerstone
- This revaluation of Levinas’s thinking will provide a fundamental framework for reflecting on the resurgence of ethics in contemporary philosophy, literary and cultural theory
- Unlike recent research done in France, this volume does not seek to indict Levinas for this "sacrificial ethics" but to critically assess to what extent his ethical metaphysics provides us with a basis for effective ethical action today
- The contributors include renowned scholars from around the world, which gives the volume a guaranteed international appeal (specifically USA, UK and Europe)
- The duo-paper structure of the volume generates an internal debate amongst the contributions, which cover the entire scope of Levinas’s work. This is instrumental in furnishing the reader with a unbiased and multi-dimensional perspective on radical passivity
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 20)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Radical Passivity and the Self
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Radical Passivity as Basis for Effective Ethical Action?
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Radical Passivity and Levinas's Talmudic Readings
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radical Passivity
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas
Editors: Benda Hofmeyr
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9347-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9346-3Published: 17 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8110-0Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9347-0Published: 21 January 2009
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 152
Topics: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology, Philosophy, general