Humanism of the Other (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
136
Utgivningsdatum
2005-10-01
Förlag
University of Illinois Press
Översättare
Nidra Poller
Medarbetare
Cohen, Richard A. (introd.)
Dimensioner
210 x 140 x 10 mm
Vikt
200 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780252073267

Humanism of the Other

av Emmanuel Levinas
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-10-01
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In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. Based in a new appreciation for ethics, and taking new distances from the phenomenology of Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, the idealism of Plato and Kant, and the skepticism of Nietzsche and Blanchot, Levinas rehabilitates humanism and restores its promises. He expresses disappointment with the revolutions that became bureaucracies and totalitarian governments, and the national liberation movements that eventually led to oppression and international wars. Defining the human as subject, ego, synthesis, identification, cognition, and mood all too easily lead to subjugation, persecution, and murder. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization which reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.
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"Jewish, philosophical, timely, and aided by a brilliant introduction."

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) is the author of Time and the Other,Totality and Infinity,Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, and many other philosophical texts. Nidra Poller is the translator of Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnew and Michael Jeanneret's Perpetual Motion. Richard A. Cohen is the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the translator of many Levinas books.

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