Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness
This book engages with such themes by means of five case studies. In this text, the authors argue that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat the other as genuinely other. They reveal reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Against the Empathetic Fallacy: On the Seriousness of the Moral Point of View
- Chapter 2 - Pain and the Other, and the Otherness of Pain
- Chapter 3 - Silence as Distance
- Chapter 4 - Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition
- Chapter 5 - The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love
- Chapter 6 - Conclusion
- References
- Index