Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other eBook

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A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy. This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the “non-identity thinking” of Adorno and the “ethics of the Other” of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and “inhuman” material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life.

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Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other is written by Eric S. Nelson and published by Suny Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other are 9781438480251, 1438480253 and the print ISBNs are 9781438480244, 1438480245. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781438480237.