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Title

Radical passivity : rethinking ethical agency in Levinas / edited by Benda Hofmeyr.

Publication

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Hofmeyr, Benda

Description

161 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This multiperspectical volume brings together a host of renowned Levinas scholars in an attempt to critically reflect upon the ethical significance of radical passivity. Contributions cover the entire scope of this notion's evolution within Levinas's thought from its phenomenological roots to its culmination in what is often referred to as his confessional writings, the Talmudic Readings. In addition, this volume offers us a much needed critical revaluation of key issues in Levinas's thought which are, more often than not, uncritically assimilated or taken as matter of fact."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Library of ethics and applied philosophy v. 20.

Subject

• Lévinas, Emmanuel
• Ethics
• Passivity (Psychology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editor's introduction : passivity as necessary condition for ethical agency? -- pt. I, Introducing radical passivity. Radical passivity : ethical problem or solution? / Benda Hofmeyr ; Radical passivity in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (lectures of 1954) / Bettina Bergo -- pt. II, Radical passivity and the self. Sincerely yours : towards a phenomenology of me / Adriaan Peperzak ; Sincerely me : enjoyment and the truth of hedonism / Joachim Duyndam -- pt. III, Radical passivity as basis of effective ethical action? The fundamental ethical experience / Alphonso Lingis ; Radical passivity as the (only) basis for effective ethical action : reading the 'passage to the third' in Otherwise than being / Peter Zeillinger -- pt. IV, Radical passivity and Levinas's Talmudic readings. Listening to the language of the other / Anya Topolski ; Ab-originality : radical passivity through Talmudic reading / Seán Hand ; L'être entre les lettres : creation and passivity in And God created woman / Luc Anckaert.

ISBN

• 9781402093463 (hbk.)
• 1402093462 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2008940144

OCLC

• 297801848
• SCSB-11463502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library