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almahu_9949465273802882
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1 online resource (287 pages)
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1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839416945
Series Statement:
Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ; v.11
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Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas' philosophy -- 1 Orientation: Levinas as political philosopher -- 2 "There are always at least three…": Urgency and primacy of the political relation -- 2.1 The constitution of political meaning -- 2.2 Politics: the indispensable translation of the Saying to the Said -- 3 Clarifications on the title -- PART 1. ETHICS AFTER THE COLONIES: THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF LEVINAS' POLITICAL THOUGHT -- Chapter 2. Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation -- 1 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, or the use of ethnography for ontology and politics -- 1.1 "To be is to participate" -- 1.2 Heidegger, nostalgia, cruelty and the eclipse of monotheism -- 1.3 Ethnography, ontology and socio-political criticism -- 2 Claude Lévi-Strauss, decolonisation and indifference -- 3 Conclusion: the politics of Levinas' philosophy of alterity -- Chapter 3. The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point -- 1 From situated thought to global consequences -- 2 Decolonisation, colonisation: figures of the global -- 3 For a globalised world -- PART 2. LEVINAS' POST-ANTI-HUMANIST HUMANISM AND AFTER -- Chapter 4. Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas' reflection on Jewish education -- 1 "For a Hebraic humanism" -- 2 "Anti-humanism and education" -- 3 Universalism and authority: an uncertain conclusion -- 4 Changing of the guards: Talmudic humanism and a philosophical post-anti-humanist humanism -- Chapter 5. Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other -- 1 First attempts at a political and ontological formulation of the problem -- 2 The crisis of humanism -- 2.1 End of the subject -- 2.2 Questioning the rationality of the animal rationale -- 2.3 Cultural relativity or the death of God -- 3 Humanism and ethicity.
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4 "Ethical culture" and the "cultural and aesthetic notion of meaning" -- 5 "Real humanism": an un-likely family portrait -- 5.1 Sartre: humanism as existentialism -- 5.2 Heidegger: "humanism" in the extreme sense -- 5.3 Althusser: humanism as ideology -- Chapter 6. After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility -- 1 Universalism and particularism: Marion and Bernasconi -- 2 Responsibility and irresponsibility -- 2.1 Can a Levinasian kill? From the original contradiction to the participation of practice in the meaning of the ethical -- 2.2 Infinite responsibility and the polysemy of transgression -- 2.3 Mediation: the irreducible political condition of responsibility -- 3 After Levinas -- PART 3. POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD -- Chapter 7. Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics -- 1 An inhospitable world: disenchantment and polytheism in Weber and Levinas -- 2 Levinas: a Gesinnungsethiker or a Verantwortungsethiker? -- 2.1 The prima facie case for Levinas as "ethicist of principle" -- 2.2 Levinas as political "ethicist of responsibility" -- 2.3 Responsibility elevated to principle or principle elevated to responsibility? -- Chapter 8. Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel -- 1 Justification: Apel and the unavoidability of responsibility -- 2 From a Weberian Apel to a Weberian Levinas -- 3 Four objectives for a theory of political responsibility -- Chapter 9. Ricoeur's contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world -- 1 Ricoeur's political paradox and appropriation of Weber -- 2 From the political paradox to its integration in the "Little ethics" -- 3 Political action between capacities and conflict -- 4 Responsibility, prudence, collaboration, equity -- 4.1 Remarks on the resources: Levinas and Ricoeur.
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4.2 Ambiguity concerning Ricoeur's use of the notion of responsibility -- 4.3 Towards a political responsibility for a globalised world -- CONCLUSION. FOR A "GOOD ENOUGH" JUSTICE -- Bibliography -- 1 Abbreviations -- 2 General Bibliography.
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Print version: Wolff, Ernst Political Responsibility for a Globalised World Bielefeld : transcript,c2014 ISBN 9783837616941
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