Radical Passivity Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas
Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocitie...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing Radical Passivity
- Editor's Introduction: Passivity as Necessary Condition for Ethical Agency?
- Radical Passivity: Ethical Problem or Solution?
- Radical Passivity in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (Lectures of 1954)
- Radical Passivity and the Self
- Sincerely Yours. Towards a Phenomenology of Me
- Sincerely Me. Enjoyment and the Truth of Hedonism
- Radical Passivity as Basis for Effective Ethical Action?
- The Fundamental Ethical Experience
- Radical Passivity as the (Only) Basis for Effective Ethical Action. Reading the ‘Passage to the Third ’ in Otherwise than Being
- Radical Passivity and Levinas's Talmudic Readings
- Listening to the Language of the Other
- Ab-Originality: Radical Passivity through Talmudic Reading
- L'Être Entre les Lettres. Creation and Passivity in ‘And God Created Woman’