The face of things : a different side of ethics
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The face of things : a different side of ethics
（SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy / Dennis J. Schmidt, editor）
State University of New York Press, c2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Here's a book that dispels the traditional tendency of philosophy to ignore the alterity of things. Drawing on two major figures in the continental tradition—Levinas and Heidegger—author Silvia Benso engages them on the provocative issue of an ethics of things. She argues that Levinas advances an ethics without things, and Heidegger proffers a conception of things without ethics. Taking up their respective meditations on ethics and things precisely at the point where they abandon such themes, and exposing them to each other, Benso innovatively elaborates an ethical attitude toward things capable of celebrating their alterity—a demand rendered urgent and compelling by the contemporary environmental crisis. Creatively centered on a philosophical hermeneutics of tenderness, The Face of Things advances the everyday time of festivity as the novel dimension within which the alterity of things can be recognized, preserved, and celebrated.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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Preface
Part 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
Part 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 Things
Part III. The Ethics of Things: Tender Love, Festive Things
10. Prelude: Toward an Ethics of Things
11. Things' Obsessive Appeal
12. Touch, Attention, Tenderness
13. Saddened Tenderness: Violence and Resistance
14. Festive Celebrations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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