The middle voice of ecological conscience : a chiasmic reading of responsibility in the neighbourhood of Levinas, Heidegger, and others
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The middle voice of ecological conscience : a chiasmic reading of responsibility in the neighbourhood of Levinas, Heidegger, and others
Macmillan, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index
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Adapting hints taken from Derrida, this book works toward a construal of neighbourhood and direct ecological responsibility through crossed readings of Levinas's teaching of the Other and Heidegger's thinking of the "fourfold" and letting-be. After a chapter introducing Levinas's metaphysics of the face by imagining the diagnosis he would give of the spiritual crisis of John Stuart Mill, in chapters on what Heidegger writes about Kant's phenomenology of respect, on Heidegger's comments regarding Holderlin, Rilke and Trakl and on Levinas's comments regarding femininity, art and a remark by Celan, it is argued that conscience interpreted via the grammatical notion of middle voice announces a direct asymmetrical responsibility toward needy existents as such, whether they be rational or sentient or living or not.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to metaphysics
- anarchic responsibility
- who is my neighbour?
- critical responsibility
- post-critical poiesis and thinking
- ontological responsibility and the poetics of nature
- the responsibility of saving the world through song
- the absolute master
- the feeling intellect
- something like the middle voice.
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