
Levinasian Ethics in Conversation
Responsibility and the Other
Michael L. Morgan(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. July 2026
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-1-041-22874-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book collects chapters from Michael L. Morgan examining how Levinas speaks to various issues in moral, social, and political philosophy. The chapters, half of which are previously unpublished, put Levinas in dialogue with key figures in contemporary Anglo-American and Continental thought.
Morgan places Levinas's ideas about responsibility for the other, second-person or face-to-face encounters, and the primacy of ethics in conversation with contemporary philosophers including Stanley Cavell, R. Jay Wallace, Alice Crary, and others. By juxtaposing Levinasian thinking with recent developments in moral, social, and political philosophy, Morgan offers fresh insights into how Levinas's radical ethical stance illuminates pressing questions about second-person relations, moral normativity, and our responsibilities to others. The book bridges traditional divides between philosophical traditions while demonstrating Levinas's continued relevance to twenty-first-century philosophical concerns.
Levinasian Ethics in Conversation is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in philosophy, religious studies, Jewish studies, comparative literature, intellectual history, and political theory who are interested in Levinas.
Morgan places Levinas's ideas about responsibility for the other, second-person or face-to-face encounters, and the primacy of ethics in conversation with contemporary philosophers including Stanley Cavell, R. Jay Wallace, Alice Crary, and others. By juxtaposing Levinasian thinking with recent developments in moral, social, and political philosophy, Morgan offers fresh insights into how Levinas's radical ethical stance illuminates pressing questions about second-person relations, moral normativity, and our responsibilities to others. The book bridges traditional divides between philosophical traditions while demonstrating Levinas's continued relevance to twenty-first-century philosophical concerns.
Levinasian Ethics in Conversation is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in philosophy, religious studies, Jewish studies, comparative literature, intellectual history, and political theory who are interested in Levinas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-22874-5 (9781041228745)
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Michael L. Morgan is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, USA.
Content
Preface Introduction: The Reception of Levinas in North America
1.Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary: Levinas with Stanley Cavell
2. Levinas, Morality, and the Second-Person Perspective: Levinas with Michael Thompson and R. Jay Wallace
3. On Sociality and Our Moral Lives: Levinas with Michael Tomasello, P.F. Strawson, and R. Jay Wallace
4. Levinas and The Moral Nexus: Levinas with R. Jay Wallace
5. I, You, We: Sociality and Community: Levinas with Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
6. Radical Demand in Metaphysics, Morality, and Religion: Levinas with Knud Logstrup and Robert Stern
7. Responding to the Holocaust: Levinas with Stanley Cavell and Emil Fackenheim
8. Levinas and Unconditional Forgiveness: Levinas with Lucy Allais
9. Levinas, Animals, and Moral Imagination: Levinas with Alice Crary
10. Levinas, Private Law, and Torts: Levinas with Ernest Weinrib and Arthur Ripstein
11. Ethical Critique, the Primacy of the Second-Person, and Recent Political Thought: Levinas with Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Rainer Forst, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas
12. Levinas, Feminist Philosophy, and the Ethics of Care
1.Emmanuel Levinas as a Philosopher of the Ordinary: Levinas with Stanley Cavell
2. Levinas, Morality, and the Second-Person Perspective: Levinas with Michael Thompson and R. Jay Wallace
3. On Sociality and Our Moral Lives: Levinas with Michael Tomasello, P.F. Strawson, and R. Jay Wallace
4. Levinas and The Moral Nexus: Levinas with R. Jay Wallace
5. I, You, We: Sociality and Community: Levinas with Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
6. Radical Demand in Metaphysics, Morality, and Religion: Levinas with Knud Logstrup and Robert Stern
7. Responding to the Holocaust: Levinas with Stanley Cavell and Emil Fackenheim
8. Levinas and Unconditional Forgiveness: Levinas with Lucy Allais
9. Levinas, Animals, and Moral Imagination: Levinas with Alice Crary
10. Levinas, Private Law, and Torts: Levinas with Ernest Weinrib and Arthur Ripstein
11. Ethical Critique, the Primacy of the Second-Person, and Recent Political Thought: Levinas with Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Rainer Forst, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas
12. Levinas, Feminist Philosophy, and the Ethics of Care