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Overview"Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or ""eurocentric,"" view of other cultural traditions. In Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence and adequacy of Levinas's central philosophical claims. Using a twofold method of reconstruction and critique, Marsh conducts a holistic immanent evaluation of Levinas's major works, showing how the problem of eurocentrism, and abiding ambiguities in Levinas's political and religious thought, can be traced back to specific problems in his general philosophical methodology. Marsh offers an original analysis of Levinas's method that verifies and extends existing critical work by Jacques Derrida, Robert Bernasconi, Judith Butler, and others. This is the first book to foreground the normative question of chauvinism in Levinas's work, and the first to perform a holistic critical diagnosis of his general philosophical method." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jack MarshPublisher: 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: 9781438482644ISBN 10: 1438482647 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 02 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Preface Key to Abbreviations of Works by Levinas Introduction 1. Empty Hands: The Tragic Irony of Totality and Infinity 2. Of Form and Face in Totality and Infinity 3. ""Flipping the Deck,"" On Totality and Infinity's Transcendental/Empirical Puzzle 4. Ontology and Ethics in Otherwise than Being 5. Levinas, Eurocentrism, Justice 6. Levinas: A Life 7. Levinas Today 8. Conclusions and Beginnings Notes Bibliography Name Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationJack Marsh received his PhD in philosophy from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and is a PhD candidate in theology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the coeditor (with Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin) of Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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