The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics

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Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things. The Face of Things CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS 1— Works by Levinas 2— Works by Heidegger PREFACE Philosophical Laughters Breaching the Tradition The Primacy of Ethics Facialities The Unfolding of One Story Casual Analogies The Unfolding of Another Story The Unfolding of a Different Story Ecology, Ethics, Metaphysics I— LEVINAS: LOVE WITHOUT THINGS 1— Out of Love: The Break with Parmenides 2— In Love: Ethics as the Meeting Place 3— My love, who are you? The Face of the Beloved Other 4— Without Love: The Disappearance of Things II— HEIDEGGER: THINGS WITHOUT LOVE 5— The Question of Things 6— Phenomenologically, Things 7— Instrumental Modes of Disclosure 8— Artistic Modes of Disclosure 9— Ethical Disclosure? The Faciality of Things1 III— THE ETHICS OF THINGS: TENDER LOVE, FESTIVE THINGS 10— Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things[en(1)] 11— Things' Obsessive Appeal 12— Touch, Attention, Tenderness 13— Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance 14— Festive Celebrations NOTES Preface Chapter 1— Out of Love: The Break with Parmenides Chapter 2— In Love: Ethics as the Meeting Place Chapter 3— My love, who are you? The Face of the Beloved Other Chapter 4— Without Love: The Disappearance of Things Chapter 5— The Question of Things Chapter 6— Phenomenologically, Things Chapter 7— Instrumental Modes of Disclosure Chapter 8— Artistic Modes of Disclosure Chapter 9— Ethical Disclosure? The Faciality of Things Chapter 10— Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things Chapter 11— Things' Obsessive Appeal Chapter 12— Touch, Attention, Tenderness Chapter 13— Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance Chapter 14— Festive Celebrations BIBLIOGRAPHY 1— Works by Levinas 2— Works by Heidegger 3— Other Works INDEX A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W Z