The Inhuman Condition Looking for Difference after Levinas and Heidegger /

• Main Author: Visker, Rudi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bernet, R. (Editor), Taminiaux, J. (Editor), IJsseling, S. (Editor), Leonardy, H. (Editor), Lories, D. (Editor), Melle, U. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Phaenomenologica, 175
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Modern philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Modern Philosophy.

At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference? To clarify the meaning of the difference at stake here, we have tried to re...

Table of Contents:

• Looking for Difference
• Levinas, Multiculturalism and Us
• In Respectful Contempt Heidegger, Appropriation, Facticity
• Whistling in the Dark Two Approaches to Anxiety
• After Levinas
• The Price of Being Dispossessed Levinas’ God and Freud’s Trauma
• The Mortality of the Transcendent Levinas and Evil
• Is Ethics Fundamental? Questioning Levinas on Irresponsibility
• After Heidegger
• Intransitive Facticity? A Question to Heidegger
• Demons and the Demonic. Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Anxiety and Sexual Difference
• Dissensus Communis How to Keep Silent “after” Lyotard.