Levinas and Analytic Philosophy -

Levinas and Analytic Philosophy

Second-Person Normativity and the Moral Life
Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33749-4 (ISBN)
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This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas’s work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. It shows how 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.
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.

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.

Preface: Analyzing Levinas

Michael Fagenblat

Part I. Second-Person Normativity



Second-Person Reasons: Darwall, Levinas, and the Phenomenology of Reason
Steven G. Crowell


The Second Source of Normativity and its Implications for Reflective Endorsement: Levinas and Korsgaard
Michael Barber


Grounding and Maintaining Answerability
Michael Fagenblat


Buber, Levinas, and the I-Thou relation
Patricia Meindl, Felipe León, and Dan Zahavi


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


The Concept of Truth in Levinas’s Totality and Infinity
Michael Roubach


Levinas on the Second-Person Structure of Free Will
Kevin Houser


Personal Knowledge
Sophie-Grace Chappell

Part III. Ethics and moral philosophy


Desire for the Good
Fiona Ellis


Levinas, Tomasello, Strawson, Wallace: Reflections on Sociality and Morality
Michael Morgan


Rethinking Vulnerability in a Levinasian Context
Diane Perpich


Between Virtue Theory and the Theory of Subjectivity: Noddings’s Care, Levinas’s Responsibility, and Slote’s Receptivity
Guoping Zhao


Levinasian "Ethics as a First Philosophy" in Analytic Philosophy
Melis Erdur


Against a Clear Conscience: A Levinasian Response to Williams’ Challenge

Søren Overgaard

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Phenomenology
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 1-032-33749-4 / 1032337494
ISBN-13 978-1-032-33749-4 / 9781032337494
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