The Inhuman Condition Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heide
At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference? To clarify the meaning of
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THE INHUMAN CONDITION Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heidegger
Editorial Board: Director: R. Bernet (Husserl-Archief, Leuven) Secretary: J. Taminiaux (Centre d’études phénoménologiques, Louvain-la-Neuve) Members: S. IJsseling (HusserlArchief, Leuven), H. Leonardy (Centre d’études phénoménologiques, Louvain-laNeuve), D. Lories (Centre d’études phénoménologiques, Louvain-la-Neuve), U. Melle (Husserl-Archief, Leuven) Advisory Board: R. Bernasconi (Memphis State University), D. Carr (Emory University, Atlanta), E.S. Casey (State University of New York at Stony Brook), R. Cobb-Stevens (Boston College), J.F. Courtine (Archives-Husserl, Paris), F. Dastur (Université de Nice), K. Düsing (Husserl-Archiv, Köln), J. Hart (Indiana University, Bloomington), K. Held (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), K.E. Kaehler (Husserl-Archiv, Köln), D. Lohmar (Husserl-Archiv, Köln), W.R. McKenna (Miami University, Oxford, USA), J.N. Mohanty (Temple University, Philadelphia), E.W. Orth (Universität Trier), P. Ricœur (Paris), C. Sini (Università degli Studi di Milano), R. Sokolowski (Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.), B. Waldenfels (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
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THE INHUMAN CONDITION Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heidegger
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Each generation has its own task and need not trouble itself unduly by being everything to previous and succeeding generations. S. Kierkegaard
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction — Talking ’bout My Generation
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Part I
LOOKING FOR DIFFERENCE Chapter 1 — Levinas, Multiculturalism and Us 1. The Political Approach and Its Implicit Metaphysics 2. The Ethical Approach and Its Explicit Metaphysics 3. A Question of Attachments Chapter 2 — In Respectful Contempt. Heidegger, Appropriation, Facticity 1. In the Margins of Thought 2. Relativism, Scepticism, Historicism 3. Appropriating Heidegger After Foucault 4. Being Held (Up) 5. Just How Naked Is Dasein’s ‘That’? Chapter 3 — Whistling in the Dark. Two Approaches to Anxiety 1. Anxiety and Fear 2. Heidegger’s Approach to Anxiety 3. The ‘Security Paradox’ 4. Anxiety in a Pluralistic Society
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Part II
AFTER LEVINAS Chapter 4 — The Price of Being Dispossessed. Levinas’ God and Freud’s Trauma 1. A Discomfort That Liberates? 2. The Proximity o
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