Political Responsibility for a Globalised World : After Levinas' Humanism / Ernst Wolff.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ; 11Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2014]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Table of contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas' philosophy -- PART 1. Ethics after the colonies -- Chapter 2 Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation -- Chapter 3 The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point -- PART 2 Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism and after -- Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism and after -- Chapter 4 Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas' reflection on Jewish education -- Chapter 5 Levinas' post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other1 -- Chapter 6 After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility -- PART 3 Political Responsibility for a Globalised World -- Political Responsibility for a Globalised World -- Chapter 7 Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics -- Chapter 8 Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel -- Chapter 9 Ricoeur's contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Backmatter
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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.
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