Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics (Suny series in Contemporary French Thought) - Couverture souple

Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791475506 ISBN 13 : 9780791475508

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2009

Synopsis

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

Before the Voice of Reason is a phenomenological critique of reason grounded in our experience of the voices that already address us and summon us prior to the emergence of the voice of reason. In part one, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin explores the voices of nature and draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to offer a new way of thinking about environmental responsibility. In part two, he looks at the voice of the moral law and the voices of other human beings, advances a more nuanced account of Levinas's distinction between "Saying" and "Said," and proposes a new argument for our responsibility to the other.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Michael Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald and Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics, both published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791475506
• ISBN 13: 9780791475508
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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