Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other

By:

Eric S Nelson

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Hardback

Series:

Suny Series in Contemporary French Thought

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This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the "non-identity thinking" of Adorno and the "ethics of the Other" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and "inhuman" material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life.

Author Biography:

Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 2020

Author

Eric S Nelson

Series

Suny Series in Contemporary French Thought

Pages

480

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Total Illustrations: 0

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9781438480237

Product ID

33461993

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