Being Responsibility And Animality 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.

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

Eco-Phenomenology

This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book shifts previously marginalized environmental concerns to the forefront and blazes a trail for a new collaboration between phenomenologists and ecologically-minded theorists.