Levinas and Analytic Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Second-Person Normativity and the Moral Life
Redaktion: Fagenblat, Michael; Erdur, Melis

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to those espoused by Levinas. Often disparately pursued, Levinas's account of "ethics as first philosophy" affords a way of connecting these respective enterprises and showing how moral normativity enters into the structure of rationality and personal identity.

In metaethics, the volume shows how Levinas's moral phenomenology relates to recent work on the normativity of rationality and intentionality, and how it can illuminate a wide range of moral concepts including accountability, moral intuition, respect, conscience, attention, blame, indignity, shame, hatred, dependence, gratitude and guilt. The volume also tests Levinas's innovative claim that ethical relations provide a way of accounting for the irreducibility of personal identity to psychological identity. The essays here contribute to ongoing discussions about the metaphysical significance and sustainability of a naturalistic but nonreductive account of personhood. Finally, the volume connects Levinas's second-person standpoint with analogous developments in moral philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429870064
• Artikelnr.: 58323295

Autorenporträt

Michael Fagenblat is Senior Lecturer at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism (2010), editor of Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity (2017), and other publications in phenomenology and the philosophy of religion. Melis Erdur received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York University in 2013. She has held several postdoctoral fellowships in Israel, and published articles in the area of moral philosophy, including "A Moral Argument Against Moral Realism", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19 (3), 591-602, 2016, and "Moral Realism and the Incompletability of Morality", The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52 (2), 227-237, 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Analyzing Levinas
Michael Fagenblat
Part I. Second-Person Normativity
1. Second-Person Reasons: Darwall, Levinas, and the Phenomenology of
Reason
Steven G. Crowell
2. The Second Source of Normativity and its Implications for Reflective
Endorsement: Levinas and Korsgaard
Michael Barber
3. Grounding and Maintaining Answerability
Michael Fagenblat
4. Buber, Levinas, and the I-Thou relation
Patricia Meindl, Felipe León, and Dan Zahavi
5. Commanding, Giving, Vulnerable: What is the Normative Standing of the
Other in Levinas?
James H. P. Lewis and Robert A. Stern
Part II. Ethical Metaphysics
6. The Concept of Truth in Levinas's Totality and Infinity
Michael Roubach
7. Levinas on the Second-Person Structure of Free Will
Kevin Houser
8. Personal Knowledge
Sophie-Grace Chappell
Part III. Ethics and moral philosophy
9. Desire for the Good
Fiona Ellis
10. Levinas, Tomasello, Strawson, Wallace: Reflections on Sociality and
Morality
Michael Morgan
11. Rethinking Vulnerability in a Levinasian Context
Diane Perpich
12. Between Virtue Theory and the Theory of Subjectivity: Noddings's
Care, Levinas's Responsibility, and Slote's Receptivity
Guoping Zhao
13. Levinasian "Ethics as a First Philosophy" in Analytic Philosophy
Melis Erdur
14. Against a Clear Conscience: A Levinasian Response to Williams'
Challenge
Søren Overgaard