Jack Marsh 
Saying Peace [EPUB ebook] 
Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity

Levinas’s big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or ‘eurocentric, ‘ view of other cultural traditions. In
Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence and adequacy of Levinas’s central philosophical claims. Using a twofold method of reconstruction and critique, Marsh conducts a holistic immanent evaluation of Levinas’s major works, showing how the problem of eurocentrism, and abiding ambiguities in Levinas’s political and religious thought, can be traced back to specific problems in his general philosophical methodology. Marsh offers an original analysis of Levinas’s method that verifies and extends existing critical work by Jacques Derrida, Robert Bernasconi, Judith Butler, and others. This is the first book to foreground the normative question of chauvinism in Levinas’s work, and the first to perform a holistic critical diagnosis of his general philosophical method.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgments

Preface

Key to Abbreviations of Works by Levinas



Introduction



1. Empty Hands: The Tragic Irony of
Totality and Infinity



2. Of Form and Face in
Totality and Infinity



3. ‘Flipping the Deck, ‘ On
Totality and Infinity’s Transcendental/Empirical Puzzle



4. Ontology and Ethics in
Otherwise than Being



5. Levinas, Eurocentrism, Justice



6. Levinas: A Life



7. Levinas Today



8. Conclusions and Beginnings



Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Circa l’autore

Jack Marsh received his Ph D in philosophy from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and is a Ph D candidate in theology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is the coeditor (with Matthew Burch and Irene Mc Mullin) of
Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology.