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Political Responsibility for a Globalised World : After Levinas' Humanism

1st ed.

Bielefeld : transcript, 2014 [©2011]

1 online resource (287 pages)

Englisch

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Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas' philosophy -- 1 Orientation: Levinas as political philosopher -- 2 "There are always at least three...": Urgency and primacy of the political relation -- 2.1 The constitution of political meaning -- 2.2 Politics: the indispensable translation of the Saying to the Said -- 3 Clarifications on the title -- PART 1. ETHICS AFTER THE COLONIES: THE GLOBAL SCOPE OF LEVINAS' POLITICAL THOUGHT -- Chapter 2. Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation -- 1 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, or the use of ethnography for ontology and politics -- 1.1 "To be is to participate" -- 1.2 Heidegger, nostalgia, cruelty and the eclipse of monotheism -- 1.3 Ethnography, ontology and socio-political criticism -- 2 Claude Lévi-Strauss, decolonisation and indifference -- 3 Conclusion: the politics of Levinas' philosophy of alterity -- Chapter 3. The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point -- 1 From situated thought to global consequences -- 2 Decolonisation, colonisation: figures of the global -- 3 For a globalised world -- PART 2. LEVINAS' POST-ANTI-HUMANIST HUMANISM AND AFTER -- Chapter 4. Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas' reflection on Jewish education -- 1 "For a Hebraic humanism" -- 2 "Anti-humanism and education" -- 3 Universalism and authority: an uncertain conclusion -- 4 Changing of the guards: Talmudic humanism and a philosophical post-anti-humanist humanism -- Chapter 5. Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other -- 1 First attempts at a political and ontological formulation of the problem -- 2 The crisis of humanism -- 2.1 End of the subject -- 2.2 Questioning the rationality of the animal rationale -- 2.3 Cultural relativity or the death of God -- 3 Humanism and ethicity.