Levinas and Analytic Philosophy: Second-Person Normativity and the Moral Life

ISBN-13: 9781032337494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 316 str.

Michael Fagenblat; Melis Erdur

Opis

This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas’s work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. It shows how 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.

Recenzje

"An innovative collection of essays written by an impressive group of scholars that demonstrates the important contribution that Levinas's thought can make to discussions more commonly associated with the analytic philosophical tradition." - Leslie MacAvoy, East Tennessee State University, USA

"With the increasing need to build bridges among the different philosophical traditions and with the growing interest in Levinas's work, this book will appeal to a significant number of scholars working in Levinas studies, moral philosophy, and philosophy of mind. Erdur and Fagenblat have assembled a first rate group of scholars whose essays will encourage discussions across intra-disciplinary boundaries." - Claire Katz, Texas A&M University, USA

Spis treści

Preface: Analyzing Levinas

Michael Fagenblat

Part I. Second-Person Normativity

1. Second-Person Reasons: Darwall, Levinas, and the Phenomenology of Reason

Steven G. Crowell

2. The Second Source of Normativity and its Implications for Reflective Endorsement: Levinas and Korsgaard

Michael Barber

3. Grounding and Maintaining Answerability

Michael Fagenblat

4. Buber, Levinas, and the I-Thou relation

Patricia Meindl, Felipe León, and Dan Zahavi

5. 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

6. The Concept of Truth in Levinas’s Totality and Infinity

Michael Roubach

7. Levinas on the Second-Person Structure of Free Will

Kevin Houser

8. Personal Knowledge

Sophie-Grace Chappell

Part III. Ethics and moral philosophy

9. Desire for the Good

Fiona Ellis

10. Levinas, Tomasello, Strawson, Wallace: Reflections on Sociality and Morality

Michael Morgan

11. Rethinking Vulnerability in a Levinasian Context

Diane Perpich

12. Between Virtue Theory and the Theory of Subjectivity: Noddings’s Care, Levinas’s Responsibility, and Slote’s Receptivity

Guoping Zhao

13. Levinasian "Ethics as a First Philosophy" in Analytic Philosophy

Melis Erdur

14. Against a Clear Conscience: A Levinasian Response to Williams’ Challenge

Søren Overgaard

O autorze

Michael Fagenblat is Senior Lecturer at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism (2010), editor of Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity (2017), and other publications in phenomenology and the philosophy of religion.

Melis Erdur received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from New York University in 2013. She has held several postdoctoral fellowships in Israel, and published articles in the area of moral philosophy, including "A Moral Argument Against Moral Realism", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19 (3), 591-602, 2016, and "Moral Realism and the Incompletability of Morality", The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52 (2), 227-237, 2018.