1st Edition
Levinasian Ethics in Conversation Responsibility and the Other
By Michael L. Morgan
Copyright 2027
320 Pages
by
Routledge
This book collects chapters from Michael L. Morgan examining how Levinas speaks to various issues in moral, social, and political philosophy. The chapters, half of which are previously unpublished, put Levinas in dialogue with key figures in contemporary Anglo-American and Continental thought.
Morgan places Levinas's ideas about responsibility for the other, second-person or face-to-face... Read more
Preface
Introduction: The Reception of Levinas in North America
1.Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary: Levinas with Stanley Cavell
2. Levinas, Morality, and the Second-Person Perspective: Levinas with Michael Thompson and R. Jay Wallace
3. On Sociality and Our Moral Lives: Levinas with Michael Tomasello, P.F. Strawson, and R. Jay Wallace
4. Levinas and The Moral Nexus: Levinas with R. Jay Wallace
5. I, You, We: Sociality and Community: Levinas with Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
6. Radical Demand in Metaphysics, Morality, and Religion: Levinas with Knud Løgstrup and Robert Stern
7. Responding to the Holocaust: Levinas with Stanley Cavell and Emil Fackenheim
8. Levinas and Unconditional Forgiveness: Levinas with Lucy Allais
9. Levinas, Animals, and Moral Imagination: Levinas with Alice Crary
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1045492519" paraeid="{bc1a93b7-4508-447a-8fad-bd6c3649869a}{104}">10. Levinas, Private Law, and Torts: Levinas with Ernest Weinrib and Arthur Ripstein
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1949406007" paraeid="{bc1a93b7-4508-447a-8fad-bd6c3649869a}{118}">11. Ethical Critique, the Primacy of the Second-Person, and Recent Political Thought: Levinas with Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Rainer Forst, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas
12. Levinas, Feminist Philosophy, and the Ethics of Care
Biography
Michael L. Morgan is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, USA.
