Being Responsibility And Animality Microform Toward A Post Heideggerian Ethics Of Alterity

Being, Responsibility and Animality [microform] : Toward a Post-heideggerian Ethics of Alterity

This thesis proposes to elucidate a definition of "post-Heideggerian ethics" by following two parallel agendas: one traces a genealogy of contemporary Continental ethical theory from key concepts in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time through the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. The other considers the viability of post-Heideggerian ethics with respect to praxis, first in terms of the possibility of ethical action or agency in general, and then, in light of the explicit and apparently categorical circumscription of the purview of "ethics" to "the human" in Levinas (in particular), with respect to questions concerning the non-human.

Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy

The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are difficult and not widely understood. Lawrence Hass redresses this problem by offering an exceptionally clear, carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. Hass provides insight into the philosophical methods and major concepts that characterize Merleau-Ponty's thought. Questions concerning the nature of phenomenology, perceptual experience, embodiment, intersubjectivity, expression, and philosophy of language are fully and systematically discussed with reference to main currents and discussions in contemporary philosophy. The result is a refreshingly jargon-free invitation into Merleau-Ponty's important and transformational way of understanding human experience.

Being, Responsibility and Animality, Toward a Post-heideggerian Ethics of Alterity