Radical Responsibility for the Other :
Sebastin, S. Sekar
Radical Responsibility for the Other : An Ethical Appraisal of Emmanuel Levinas / - Bangalore Asian Trading Corporation 2010 - 208p
includes index and biblioraphy
Chapter 1: Emmanuel Levinas: Thinker between Jerusalem and Athens ... 5 1.1. The Philosophical biography ...5 The Jerusalem Pole ...6 The Athens Pole ...7 1.2. The Influence of Philosophical Traditions on Levinas ... 10 The Journey with Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)... 14 The Contribution of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)... 17 The Impact of Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973)... 20 The Influence of Martin Buber (1878-1965) ...21 The Importance of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)... 24 The J ole of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) ...26 The Place of Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941)... 27 1.3. The Philosophical Contributions of Levinas ...28 1.4. The Experience of Racist Persecution....33 Horror of Anti-Semitism ... 34 Anti-Semitism as a philosophical notion ...35 Anti-Semitism and Jewish self-understanding .... 36 The Event of the Holocaust... 39 1.5. The Rejection of Ontology... 45 Chapter 2: Emmanuel Levinas -A Postmodern Philosopher of Ethics... 51 Chapter 3: The Importance of Otherness in Ethical Relation... 61 3.1. The Epiphany of the Other... 62 Levinasian account of Ethical Subjectivity ...66 Ethical Subjectivity is Sensibility ... 67 Ethical Subjectivity is a Hostage for the other... 70 Ethical Subjectivity is Response and Passivity ...72 The Other and the Self ...73 The-One-for-the-Other... 77 3.2. The Trace of the Other and The Alterity ...79 The significance of the face (Le Visage)... 81 The Face-to-Face Relation As An Ethical Encounter... 86 The Basic Characteristics of The Face-to-Face relation...87 Ethical Relation Beyond Comprehension... 89 Equality and Asymmetry ...90 The Society of Love And Peace...92 Practical Love versus Pathetic Love.. 95 Ethical Peace Versus Political Peace...97 The Experience of Alterity against Totality ...98 3.3. The Encounter with the Stranger... 100 The Philosophy of Dialogue ... 102 The Idea of Participation ...104 The Significance of Death ... 105 Chapter 4: Ethics as Prophetic Witness ... 109 4.1. Ethics as First Philosophy ... 111 The Ground of Significant Ethics ... 114 A Phenomenology of Ethical Experience ... 116 The Prominent Role of Ethics in Human Life ... 117 Proximity and Ethical Language... 121 The proximity of the Other... 124 4.2. Responsibility for the Other... 126 The Traditional Notion of Responsibility ... 127 Radical Responsibility in Levinas ... 130 Radical Responsibility as Responsibility for the Other... 132 Preoriginal Nature of Radical Responsibility ... 134 The Facts of Responsibility ...136
8170865999 300
N86.1LE / SE210
Radical Responsibility for the Other : An Ethical Appraisal of Emmanuel Levinas / - Bangalore Asian Trading Corporation 2010 - 208p
includes index and biblioraphy
Chapter 1: Emmanuel Levinas: Thinker between Jerusalem and Athens ... 5 1.1. The Philosophical biography ...5 The Jerusalem Pole ...6 The Athens Pole ...7 1.2. The Influence of Philosophical Traditions on Levinas ... 10 The Journey with Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)... 14 The Contribution of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)... 17 The Impact of Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973)... 20 The Influence of Martin Buber (1878-1965) ...21 The Importance of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)... 24 The J ole of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) ...26 The Place of Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941)... 27 1.3. The Philosophical Contributions of Levinas ...28 1.4. The Experience of Racist Persecution....33 Horror of Anti-Semitism ... 34 Anti-Semitism as a philosophical notion ...35 Anti-Semitism and Jewish self-understanding .... 36 The Event of the Holocaust... 39 1.5. The Rejection of Ontology... 45 Chapter 2: Emmanuel Levinas -A Postmodern Philosopher of Ethics... 51 Chapter 3: The Importance of Otherness in Ethical Relation... 61 3.1. The Epiphany of the Other... 62 Levinasian account of Ethical Subjectivity ...66 Ethical Subjectivity is Sensibility ... 67 Ethical Subjectivity is a Hostage for the other... 70 Ethical Subjectivity is Response and Passivity ...72 The Other and the Self ...73 The-One-for-the-Other... 77 3.2. The Trace of the Other and The Alterity ...79 The significance of the face (Le Visage)... 81 The Face-to-Face Relation As An Ethical Encounter... 86 The Basic Characteristics of The Face-to-Face relation...87 Ethical Relation Beyond Comprehension... 89 Equality and Asymmetry ...90 The Society of Love And Peace...92 Practical Love versus Pathetic Love.. 95 Ethical Peace Versus Political Peace...97 The Experience of Alterity against Totality ...98 3.3. The Encounter with the Stranger... 100 The Philosophy of Dialogue ... 102 The Idea of Participation ...104 The Significance of Death ... 105 Chapter 4: Ethics as Prophetic Witness ... 109 4.1. Ethics as First Philosophy ... 111 The Ground of Significant Ethics ... 114 A Phenomenology of Ethical Experience ... 116 The Prominent Role of Ethics in Human Life ... 117 Proximity and Ethical Language... 121 The proximity of the Other... 124 4.2. Responsibility for the Other... 126 The Traditional Notion of Responsibility ... 127 Radical Responsibility in Levinas ... 130 Radical Responsibility as Responsibility for the Other... 132 Preoriginal Nature of Radical Responsibility ... 134 The Facts of Responsibility ...136
8170865999 300
N86.1LE / SE210