Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics and Peace

• Main Author: Škof, Lenart (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 10
• Subjects: Religion.; Political science.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Political Science.; Personality and Social Psychology.

This book offers an original contribution towards a new theory of intersubjectivity which places ethics of breath, hospitality and non-violence in the forefront. Emphasizing Indian philosophy and religion and related cross-cultural interpretations, it provides new intercultural interpretations of ke...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• Part I: On Mesocosmic Rituals: Three Accelerations
• 2 Towards Mesocosmic Rituals in the Vedas
• 3 Schelling, or From the Abyss of Ethics
• 4 A New Way of Gesture (G. H. Mead)
• PART II: Two Intermediate Variations on the Elements of Water and Air
• 5 Feuerbach’s “Pneumatische Wasserheilkunde”
• 6 Heidegger’s Hölderlinian Breath
• Part III: Communities of Breathing, Communities of Peace
• 7 Ethics of Breath: Derrida, Lévinas and Irigaray
• 8 Divine Violence? Radical Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence
• 9 Rorty and Irigaray: On a Culture of Love and Peace
• PART IV: the Return of the Breath
• 10 Breath of Silence
• 11 Ethics of Breath and the Atmosphere of Politics
• 12 Conclusion
• Index nominum.