Levinas and analytic philosophy : second-person normativity and the moral life

Author(s)

• Fagenblat, Michael
• Erdur, Melis

Bibliographic Information

Levinas and analytic philosophy : second-person normativity and the moral life

edited by Michael Fagenblat and Melis Erdur

（Routledge research in phenomenology）

Routledge, 2022, c2020

• : pbk

Note

First published in hardback, 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to those espoused by Levinas. Often disparately pursued, Levinas's account of "ethics as first philosophy" affords a way of connecting these respective enterprises and showing how moral normativity enters into the structure of rationality and personal identity. In metaethics, the volume shows how Levinas's moral phenomenology relates to recent work on the normativity of rationality and intentionality, and how it can illuminate a wide range of moral concepts including accountability, moral intuition, respect, conscience, attention, blame, indignity, shame, hatred, dependence, gratitude and guilt. The volume also tests Levinas's innovative claim that ethical relations provide a way of accounting for the irreducibility of personal identity to psychological identity. The essays here contribute to ongoing discussions about the metaphysical significance and sustainability of a naturalistic but nonreductive account of personhood. Finally, the volume connects Levinas's second-person standpoint with analogous developments in moral philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface: Analyzing Levinas Michael Fagenblat Part I. Second-Person Normativity Second-Person Reasons: Darwall, Levinas, and the Phenomenology of Reason Steven G. Crowell The Second Source of Normativity and its Implications for Reflective Endorsement: Levinas and Korsgaard Michael Barber Grounding and Maintaining Answerability Michael Fagenblat Buber, Levinas, and the I-Thou relation Patricia Meindl, Felipe Leon, and Dan Zahavi Commanding, Giving, Vulnerable: What is the Normative Standing of the Other in Levinas? James H. P. Lewis and Robert A. Stern Part II. Ethical Metaphysics The Concept of Truth in Levinas's Totality and Infinity Michael Roubach Levinas on the Second-Person Structure of Free Will Kevin Houser Personal Knowledge Sophie-Grace Chappell Part III. Ethics and moral philosophy Desire for the Good Fiona Ellis Levinas, Tomasello, Strawson, Wallace: Reflections on Sociality and Morality Michael Morgan Rethinking Vulnerability in a Levinasian Context Diane Perpich Between Virtue Theory and the Theory of Subjectivity: Noddings's Care, Levinas's Responsibility, and Slote's Receptivity Guoping Zhao Levinasian "Ethics as a First Philosophy" in Analytic Philosophy Melis Erdur Against a Clear Conscience: A Levinasian Response to Williams' Challenge Soren Overgaard

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Details

• NCID: BD02262273
• ISBN:
  • 9781032337494
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 302 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B2430.L484
  • DC23 : 194
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Lévinas, Emmanuel
  • LCSH : Analysis (Philosophy)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB15809017