Peter Atterton & Tamra Wright 
Face to Face with Animals [EPUB ebook] 
Levinas and the Animal Question

This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surrounding the moral status of animals in Levinas’s work. The book offers ten essays by leading scholars, along with a general introduction that places Levinas’s philosophy in the context of the growing field of animal ethics. The aim of the volume is to encourage dialogue on how we can extend Levinas’s ethics beyond its traditional human confines and to spur further research on the opportunities and challenges it raises.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments



Editors’ Introduction: Extending the Boundaries of ‘The Ethical’



Abbreviations



Part I. Levinas on Animals



1. The Animal Interview (English and French)


Emmanuel Levinas



Part II. Phenomenology



2. Levinas and the Other Animals: Phenomenological Analysis of Obligation


Alphonso Lingis



3. Vulnerable Lives: Levinas, Wittgenstein, and ‘Animals’


Bob Plant



4. Dog and Philosophy: Does Bobby Have What It Takes to Be Moral?


Peter Atterton




Part III. Responsibility toward Animals


5. Animals, Levinas, and Moral Imagination


Michael L. Morgan



6. Small Justice: The Rights of the Other Animal


Jonathan Crowe



7.
Ecce Animot: Levinas, Derrida, and the Other Animal


Matthew Calarco



8. Facing Animal Research: Levinas and Technologies of Effacement


Sophia Efstathiou



Part IV. Traditions: Greek/Hebrew/Asian



9.
Homo Homini Lupus: Levinas and the Animal Within


Katharine Loevy



10. What Is the Trace of the Original Face? Levinas, Buddhism, and the Mystery of Animality


Brian Shūdō Schroeder



11. ‘Now We’re Talking Pedagogy’: Levinas, Animal Ethics, and Jewish Education


Tamra Wright



Contributors

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Peter Atterton is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with Matthew Calarco) of
Radicalizing Levinas, also published by SUNY Press.
Tamra Wright is Director of Academic Studies at the London School of Jewish Studies and the author of
The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas’ Ethical Hermeneutics.