Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism

Ernst Wolff

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2011

Political Responsibility for a Globalised World

After Levinas' Humanism

Ernst Wolff
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Volume 11 in the series Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839416945

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About this book

The aim of this book is to reflect on the complex practice of responsibility within the context of a globalised world and contemporary means of action. Levinas' exploration of the ethical serves as point of entry and is shown to be seeking inter-cultural political relevance through engagement with the issues of postcoloniality and humanism. Yet, Levinas fails to realise the ethical implications of the inevitable instrumental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. With recourse to Weber, Apel and Ricoeur, Ernst Wolff proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice.

Author / Editor information

Ernst Wolff (Prof. Dr.) teaches philosophy at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and is Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen (Germany). His research covers hermeneutics, social and political philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

Reviews

Reviewed in:

PW-Portal, 11 (2011), Björn Wagner
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie,76/1 (2014), Martine Berenpas

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Editorial Open Access Download PDF	2
Table of contents Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface Open Access Download PDF	11
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas’ philosophy Open Access Download PDF	17
PART 1. Ethics after the colonies
Chapter 2 Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation Open Access Download PDF	33
Chapter 3 The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point Open Access Download PDF	59
PART 2 Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism and after
Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism and after Open Access Download PDF	77
Chapter 4 Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas’ reflection on Jewish education Open Access Download PDF	83
Chapter 5 Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other1 Open Access Download PDF	105
Chapter 6 After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility Open Access Download PDF	147
PART 3 Political Responsibility for a Globalised World
Political Responsibility for a Globalised World Open Access Download PDF	175
Chapter 7 Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics Open Access Download PDF	179
Chapter 8 Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel Open Access Download PDF	205
Chapter 9 Ricoeur’s contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world Open Access Download PDF	221
CONCLUSION For a “good enough” justice Open Access Download PDF	267
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	273
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	284

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 286
Keywords: Humanism; Politics; Globalisation; Levinas; Human; Globalization; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Culture; Ethics; Philosophy

eBook

Published: April 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839416945