According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to die, genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must attain the critical distance required for ethical judgment without assuming a superhuman position. His description of how to attain this distance constitutes a genuinely new reading of the possibility of a phenomenological ethics, one that involves reassessing what it means to be a self. Selfhood, according to Mensch, involves both...
According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to ...
This study proposes a double thesis. The first concerns the Logische Untersuchungen itself. We will attempt to show that its statements about the nature of being are inconsistent and that this inconsis- tency is responsible for the failure of this work. The second con- cerns the Logische Untersuchungen's relation to the Ideen. The latter, we propose, is a response to the failure of the Logische Untersuchungen's ontology. It can thus be understood in terms of a shift in the ontology of the Logische Untersuchungen, a shift motivated by the attempt to overcome the contradictory assertions of the...
This study proposes a double thesis. The first concerns the Logische Untersuchungen itself. We will attempt to show that its statements about the natu...
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty s concept of "intertwining" the presence of one s self in the world and of the world in one s self to understand the ideas that define political life.
Mensch begins his inquiry by developing a philosophical anthropology based on this concept. He then applies the results of his investigation to the relations of power, authority, freedom, and sovereignty in public life....
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a metho...
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of "intertwining"--the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self--to understand the ideas that define political life.
Mensch begins his inquiry by developing a philosophical anthropology based on this concept. He then applies the results of his investigation to the relations of power, authority, freedom, and sovereignty in public...
How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a metho...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas s discussion of the Other, yet it is known as a difficult book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith s commentary on Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is desti...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, "Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, "is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas s discussion of the Other, yet it is known as a difficult book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith s commentary on "Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas s Existential Analytic "guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly with...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, "Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, "is destined t...
