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"This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the ""non-identity thinking"" of Adorno and the ""ethics of the Other"" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and ""inhuman"" material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life."

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Author:   Eric S. Nelson
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438480237

ISBN 10:   1438480237
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Way to an Ethics of Material Others Part I: After Nature: Ethics, Natural History, and Environmental Crisis 1. Toward a Critical Ecological Model of Natural History 2. Natural History, Nonidentity, and Ecological Crisis 3. Communicative Interaction or Natural History? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature 4. The Trouble with Life: Life-Philosophy, Antinaturalism, and Transcendence in Levinas 5. An Ethics of Nature at the End of Nature Part II: Unsettling Religion: Suffering, Prophecy, and the Good 6. Religion, Suffering, and Damaged Life: Nietzsche, Marx, and Adorno 7. The Disturbance of the Ethical: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and Abraham's Binding of Isaac 8. Ethics between Religiosity and Secularity: Kierkegaard and Levinas 9. Prophetic Time, Materiality, and Dignity: Bloch and Levinas 10. Ethical Imperfectionism and the Sovereignty of Good: Levinas, Løgstrup, and Murdoch Part III: Demanding Justice: Asymmetrical Ethics and Critical Social Theory 11. Equality, Justice, and Asymmetrical Ethics 12. The Pathologies of Freedom and the Promise of Autonomy 13. The Limits of Liberalism: Cosmopolitanism, Tolerance, and Asymmetrical Ethics 14. Recognition, Nonidentity, and the Contradictions of Liberalism Epilogue: Nourishing Life, Unrestricted Solidarity, and the Good Notes Bibliography Index

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Eric S. Nelson's most recent work is timely, provocative and substantively novel, arguing for a connection between Levinas and Adorno that is seldom made ... Nelson has produced a highly commendable, superb guide and introduction to continental political philosophy of history in a new key. - Symposium This is an extremely impressive, original, and thorough treatment of two key twentieth-century thinkers and their applicability to the most pressing social and political issues of our time. - Jeffrey A. Bernstein, author of Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History This book is an excellent and timely contribution to political and environmental philosophy, located around a nuanced historical and philosophical approach to Levinas and Adorno. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with these figures or with the current moment. - Martin Shuster, author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity

This is an extremely impressive, original, and thorough treatment of two key twentieth-century thinkers and their applicability to the most pressing social and political issues of our time. -- Jeffrey A. Bernstein, author of Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History This book is an excellent and timely contribution to political and environmental philosophy, located around a nuanced historical and philosophical approach to Levinas and Adorno. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with these figures or with the current moment. -- Martin Shuster, author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity

Author Information

Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.

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