296 Pages
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Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the second half of the twentieth century, ethics has gained considerable prominence within philosophy. In contrast to other scholars, Levinas proposed that it be not one philosophical discipline among many, but the most fundamental and essential one. Before philosophy became divided into disciplines, Plato also treated the question of the Good as the most important philosophical question.... Read more
Introduction
a) The Central Question b) Plato’s Phaedrus c) Levinas’s Two Main Works d) Levinas on Plato e) Methodological Remarks f) Before CulturePart I: The Self Chapter 1: Preliminary Reflections on the Self
a) Interiority and the Myth of Gyges b) Otherness in the SameChapter 2: Dimensions of Corporeality
a) Levinas and the Body as Vulnerability
b) The Body in Plato’s Phaedrus
a) The permanent truth of hedonist moralities
b) Pleasure, Pain, and Vulnerability
a) Speech as Apology
b) Socratic and Levinasian Teaching
a) Levinas about Eros between Being and Non-Being
b) Plato on Beauty and Wings
c) The Place of Eros
a) The Paradox of Ethical Resistance b) An Infinite Responsibility c) Getting under the SkinPart III: The Others Chapter 7: The Universality of the Good
a) Levinas and Universal Humanism b) Plato and the Good beyond BeingChapter 8: Communities, Politics, Laws
a) Plato on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Law b) Levinas and the Political CalculusPart IV: Historical-Cultural Worlds Chapter 9: The Critique of Writing
a) Writing Versus Speech b) The Saying and the SaidChapter 10: The Ambiguity of the Aesthetic
a) Images and Shadows b) The Irresponsibility of Art c) The Work and TyrannyChapter 11: History and Culture
a) Between Past and Future b) Levinas and the Stranger c) Philosophers and Strangers in PlatoChapter 12: Concluding Remarks on Ethics and Ambiguity
a) Univocal Ethics? b) Ambiguity in de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas c) Attempting a Genealogy of Ambiguity d) Plato’s Contribution
Biography
Dr. Tanja Staehler is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex.
