Radical Passivity Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hofmeyr, Benda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 20
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy, general.

Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocitie...