Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780809335695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 334 str.

Ronald C. Arnett; Algis Mickunas

Opis

Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and responsibility to and for the Other that is an unending and imperfect commitment. In Levinas s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics, Ronald C. Arnett underscores the profundity of Levinas s insights for communication ethics.
Arnett outlines communication ethics as a primordial call of responsibility central to Levinas s writing and mission, analyzing itthrough a Levinasian lens with examination of social artifacts ranging from the Heidegger-Cassirer debate to Rupert Murdoch s News of the World story concerning illicit possession of information.
Levinas s Rhetorical Demand offers an account of Levinas s project and the pragmatic implications of attending to a call of responsibility to and for the Other. This book yields a rich and nuanced understanding of Levinas s work, revealing the practical importance of his insights, and including a discussion of related theorists and thinkers."