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Decreation and the ethical bind
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ISBN: 0823277089 0823275280 0823275272 9780823275281 9780823277087 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Fordham University Press

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In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing. The other’s claims upon the self—which induce unfinished obligation, unmet sleep, hunger—drive the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality at the heart of this book.Decreation and the Ethical Bind is a study in decreative ethics in which self-dispossession conditions responsiveness to a demand to preserve the other from harm. In examining themes of obligation, vulnerability, and the force of weak speech that run from Levinas to Butler, the book situates Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech articulate ethical appeal and the vexations of response. It elaborates a form of ethics that is not grounded in subjective agency and narrative coherence but one that is inscribed at the site of the self’s depersonalization.


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Das Politische der Dekonstruktion : Heideggers Entpolitisierung der Politeia bei Levinas, Blanchot, Nancy und Derrida
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ISBN: 3839447909 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,

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Bis heute hält die Politische Philosophie an dem staatsphilosophischen Diktum einer in viele Staaten zerfallenden Welt fest, die stets Formen der Ausgrenzung und der Trennung hervorbringt. Ralf Rother thematisiert hingegen die Dekonstruktion des Politischen als eine Repolitisierung des politischen Denkens, indem er sich einer Diskussion um Heideggers Terminus »Mitsein« widmet, die von Levinas, Blanchot, Nancy und Derrida initiiert wurde. Im Fokus dieser Debatte steht die Frage: Wie ist ein Zusammenleben derjenigen möglich, die unter Rückgriff auf Hobbes'sche und Schmitt'sche Positionen - z.B. aufgrund unterschiedlicher Herkunft oder Feindschaft - als nicht zusammengehörig verstanden werden?

The renewal of generosity : illness, medicine, and how to live
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ISBN: 0226260259 9780226260259 0226260151 9780226260150 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine-generosity toward others and to themselves. The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process. The Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision of suffering and healing.


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Plastic bodies : rebuilding sensation after phenomenology
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ISBN: 9781785420214 Year: 2015 Publisher: Open Humanities Press

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Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism. The promise of sensation has certainly not been lost on the phenomenologists who have sought to 'rehabilitate' the concept. In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology. He begins to assemble a speculative aesthetics that is at once a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the 'lived' body. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits into/fails to fit into its aesthetic environment and what must be done to increase the body’s power to act and exist.


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Justice in the city
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ISBN: 1618111116 9781618111111 1936235641 9781936235643 130615023X 9781306150231 9781936235643 Year: 2012 Publisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press,

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Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.


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Bauman and contemporary sociology : A critical analysis
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ISBN: 1526105888 9781526105882 152610587X 9781526105875 1526105896 Year: 2017 Publisher: Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press,

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This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagement.


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Der Andere als Herausforderung : Konzeptionen einer neuen Verantwortungsethik bei Lévinas und Butler
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ISBN: 3839442095 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Besonders in politisch unruhigen Zeiten stellt sich in wiederkehrenden Abständen die Frage nach der Verantwortung für unterschiedliche Geschehnisse. Der französisch-jüdische Phänomenologe Emmanuel Lévinas eröffnet einen alternativen Horizont, welcher Verantwortung von einer neuen Seite beleuchtet. Sein Ausgangspunkt ist der Andere: Ein anderer Mensch, der durch seine Ansprache die subjektive Weltordnung aus den Angeln hebt, der fordert und zur Verantwortung ruft. Ein Ruf, dem auf ethischer Grundlage entsprochen werden muss. Es bleibt ein vergeblicher, der auf dem Mittelmeer verhallt. Die Ethik von Emmanuel Lévinas ist heute so aktuell wie selten zuvor. Erweitert um die Theorien Jacques Derridas und Judith Butlers stellt Carla Schrievers Studie eine spannende Suche nach Anwendungsmöglichkeiten einer Ethik dar, die nicht Subjektivität, sondern Alterität ins Zentrum der Diskussion stellt. Besprochen in: IDA-NRW, 2 (2018) www.renatestraetling.wordpress.com, 7 (2018) Theologische Revue, 115/6 (2019), Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze


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Signature Derrida
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ISBN: 0226924556 1299400965 9780226924557 9780226924526 0226924521 9780226924540 0226924548 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida's work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define three significant "periods" in Derrida's writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays like "The Law of Genre," in which Derrida produces a kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The final period of Derrida's writing includes the essays "Of Spirit" and "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)," and three eulogies to the intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Emmanuel Lévinas, in which Derrida uses the ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their theories. With an introduction by Francoise Meltzer that provides an overview of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher, Signature Derrida is the most wide-ranging, and thus most representative, anthology of Derrida's work to date.


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Profielen van ethiek : van Aristoteles tot Levinas
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ISBN: 9062831125 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bussum Coutinho

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Profielen van ethiek onderzoekt de manieren waarop filosofen in de loop van de geschiedenis over het morele leven hebben nagedacht en hoe zij de verbinding tussen ethiek en moreel leven hebben gelegd. Daarbij is vooral de vraag interessant hoe het mogelijk is dat er zulke grote verschillen bestaan tussen de wijsgerige ethieken.De auteur behandelt achtereenvolgens de ethiek van de deugd (Aristoteles), de ethiek van het gekerstende leven (Thomas-van-Aquino), de ethiek van het nut (Utilitarisme), de ethiek van de plicht (Kant) en ten slotte het humanisme van de andere mens (Levinas).Al deze ethieken brengen een element aan het licht dat voor het morele leven belangrijk is. Geen enkele van die elementen ontbreekt in welke ethiek dan ook; maar wat in de ene ethiek op de achtergrond blijft, wordt in de andere ethiek juist in een helder daglicht gesteld. Waarom is dat zo? Wat noodzaakt een ethiek om een bepaald element zo sterk naar voren te halen en andere op de achtergrond te houden3

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