Kniha Radical Passivity Benda Hofmeyr

Radical Passivity

Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas

Autor: Benda Hofmeyr
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa v malom množstve
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The notion of radical passivity undoubtedly constitutes the burning question in the thought of Frenc...

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Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2009
Stránok
152
EAN
9781402093463
ISBN
1402093462
Enbook ID
01418735
Hmotnosť
940
Rozmery
155 x 235 x 16

Kompletný popis

The notion of radical passivity undoubtedly constitutes the burning question in the thought of French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. Committed to the claim that egoism and freedom cannot give birth to generosity, Levinas presents radical passivity as a necessary condition for ethical action understood as taking responsibility for the other. In approaching another, Levinas argues, something has overflowed my freely taken decisions, has slipped into me unbeknownst to me (CPP, 145). This something, this other-within-the-self makes the self vulnerable to the call of the other and therefore capable of taking the other s place, of substitution and sacrifice. Generosity and human fellowship, therefore, does not follow from a free rational consciousness capable of sympathy and compassion, but from a passivity inflicted by an alterity at the heart of subjectivity. Levinas is not hereby saying that one should sacrifice oneself for others. He merely wants to account for its possibility.§This multiperspectical volume brings together a host of renowned Levinas scholars in an attempt to critically reflect upon the ethical significance of radical passivity. Contributions cover the entire scope of this notion s evolution within Levinas s thought from its phenomenological roots to its culmination in what is often referred to as his confessional writings, the Talmudic Readings. In addition, this volume offers us a much needed critical revaluation of key issues in Levinas s thought which are, more often than not, uncritically assimilated or taken as matter of fact.

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