Overview
Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.
Full Product Details
Author: Silvia Benso
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: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780791445730
ISBN 10: 0791445739
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 08 June 2000
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Benso's elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls 'an ethics of things.' She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative."" - Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing ""This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation."" - Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy"
Benso's elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls 'an ethics of things.' She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative. - Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation. - Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy
Author Information
Silvia Benso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica.
