Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched

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Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched performs a cross-disciplinary theoretical analysis of the philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch. An international group of contributors, including both established and emerging scholars, engage with his writings from diverse disciplinary angles and consider his importance for contemporary political and cultural contexts. Edited by Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos, the collection provides a holistic and multi-perspectival approach to Jankélévitch's writings, one that illuminates nuanced and complex connections across the five sub-fields of philosophy to which Jankélévitch contributed: moral philosophy, virtue theory, metaphysics, philosophy of music, and philosophy of religion. The book addresses different aspects of and problems in Jankélévitch's philosophy, with all chapters unified by a preoccupation with the motif of intangibility-that which cannot be touched. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: That Which Cannot Be Touched: Introduction to Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch • Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos 1 The Metaphysics of Love and the Theory of Forgiveness in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Philosophy • Giulia Maniezzi 2 Paradoxes of Virtue in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Moral Philosophy • José Manuel Beato 3 “I can’t beat it”: Dimensions of the Bad Conscience in Manchester by the Sea • Marguerite La Caze 4 An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and Plotinus • Tim Flanagan 5 Speaking in the Night: On the Non-Sense of Death and Life • Aaron T. Looney 6 Vladimir Jankélévitch’s “Diseases of Temporality” and Their Impact on Reconciliatory Processes • Francesco Ferrari 7 Jankélévitch’s Metaphysics of Humility • Andrew Kelley 8 The Work of Remorse: Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Conception of the Ethical Subject and François Ozon’s Frantz • Magdalena Zolkos 9 The Philosophy of the Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi and the Possibility of a Nonreligious Spirituality • Clovis Salgado Gontijo 10 Vladimir Jankélévitch, Henri Bergson, and the Emergence of a Musical Aesthetic • Paul Atkinson Index Notes on Contributors