Face to Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question

Author:   Peter Atterton ,  Tamra Wright
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 May 2019
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Author:   Peter Atterton ,  Tamra Wright
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438474090


ISBN 10:   1438474091
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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"Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction: Extending the Boundaries of ""The Ethical"" Abbreviations Part I. Levinas on Animals 1. The Animal Interview (English and French) Emmanuel Levinas Part II. Phenomenology 2. Levinas and the Other Animals: Phenomenological Analysis of Obligation Alphonso Lingis 3. Vulnerable Lives: Levinas, Wittgenstein, and ""Animals"" Bob Plant 4. Dog and Philosophy: Does Bobby Have What It Takes to Be Moral? Peter Atterton Part III. Responsibility toward Animals 5. Animals, Levinas, and Moral Imagination Michael L. Morgan 6. Small Justice: The Rights of the Other Animal Jonathan Crowe 7. Ecce Animot: Levinas, Derrida, and the Other Animal Matthew Calarco 8. Facing Animal Research: Levinas and Technologies of Effacement Sophia Efstathiou Part IV. Traditions: Greek/Hebrew/Asian 9. Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal Within Katharine Loevy 10. What Is the Trace of the Original Face? Levinas, Buddhism, and the Mystery of Animality Brian Shūdō Schroeder 11. ""Now We're Talking Pedagogy"": Levinas, Animal Ethics, and Jewish Education Tamra Wright Contributors Index"

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"""Face to Face with Animals is an extraordinarily important and timely contribution. Although the question of the animal has weighed heavily upon Levinas scholars for more than two decades, it has not until now formed the subject of a book-length study. This volume rectifies that absence and proves to have been well worth the wait. It is more than scholarly. It is also, in its own way, a rousing call to thinking and acting otherwise in the face of the unsettling gazes of animal others and in the shadow of their useless suffering. Reading Levinas both with and against the grain, Face to Face with Animals makes clearer than ever that injustice is irreducible to inhumanity."" — David L. Clark, coeditor of Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory ""This book contributes the most sustained and multifaceted engagement with Levinas on animals and animality to date. In particular, it makes an important and unique contribution to the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, in which Levinas has long been a figure of great interest in light of the promise his ethics of alterity would seem to hold for developing an ethics that encompasses nonhuman animals."" — Karalyn Kendall-Morwick, Washburn University"


This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surrounding the moral status of animals in Levinas's work. The book offers ten essays by leading scholars, along with a general introduction that places Levinas's philosophy in the context of the growing field of animal ethics. The aim of the volume is to encourage dialogue on how we can extend Levinas's ethics beyond its traditional human confines and to spur further research on the opportunities and challenges it raises.


Face to Face with Animals is an extraordinarily important and timely contribution. Although the question of the animal has weighed heavily upon Levinas scholars for more than two decades, it has not until now formed the subject of a book-length study. This volume rectifies that absence and proves to have been well worth the wait. It is more than scholarly. It is also, in its own way, a rousing call to thinking and acting otherwise in the face of the unsettling gazes of animal others and in the shadow of their useless suffering. Reading Levinas both with and against the grain, Face to Face with Animals makes clearer than ever that injustice is irreducible to inhumanity. - David L. Clark, coeditor of Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory This book contributes the most sustained and multifaceted engagement with Levinas on animals and animality to date. In particular, it makes an important and unique contribution to the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, in which Levinas has long been a figure of great interest in light of the promise his ethics of alterity would seem to hold for developing an ethics that encompasses nonhuman animals. - Karalyn Kendall-Morwick, Washburn University


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Peter Atterton is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with Matthew Calarco) of Radicalizing Levinas, also published by SUNY Press. Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at the London School of Jewish Studies and the author of The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Hermeneutics.

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