Political Responsibility for a Globalised World
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Ernst Wolff
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.
Reviews
Reviewed in:
PW-Portal, 11 (2011), Björn Wagner
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15/5 (2012), Eva Buddeberg Cahiers d'Etudes Lévinassiennes, 12 (2013), Jack Marsh
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie,76/1 (2014), Martine Berenpas
Supplementary Materials
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Editorial
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Table of contents
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Preface
11 - INTRODUCTION
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Chapter 1 Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas’ philosophy
17 - PART 1. Ethics after the colonies
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Chapter 2 Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation
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Chapter 3 The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point
59 - PART 2 Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism and after
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Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism and after
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Chapter 4 Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas’ reflection on Jewish education
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Chapter 5 Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other1
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Chapter 6 After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility
147 - PART 3 Political Responsibility for a Globalised World
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Political Responsibility for a Globalised World
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Chapter 7 Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics
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Chapter 8 Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel
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Chapter 9 Ricoeur’s contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world
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CONCLUSION
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Bibliography
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Backmatter
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