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Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and Levinas’s Ethics

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0791475492, 9780791475492
LCC
B2430.M3764 K54 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
888 kB (908866 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought
Pages
309\309
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Before the Voice of Reason is a phenomenological critique of reason grounded in our experience of the voices that already address us and summon us prior to the emergence of the voice of reason. In part one, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin explores the voices of nature and draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to offer a new way of thinking about environmental responsibility. In part two, he looks at the voice of the moral law and the voices of other human beings, advances a more nuanced account of Levinas’s distinction between “Saying” and “Said,” and proposes a new argument for our responsibility to the other.

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