Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism

Columbia University Press (2011)
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The aim of this book is to reflect on the complex practice of responsibility within the context of a globalised world and contemporary means of action. Levinas' exploration of the ethical serves as point of entry and is shown to be seeking inter-cultural political relevance through engagement with the issues of postcoloniality and humanism. Yet, Levinas fails to realise the ethical implications of the inevitable instrumental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. With recourse to Weber, Apel and Ricoeur, Ernst Wolff proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice.

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10.14361/9783839416945

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Frontmatter.  (pages 1-6)Ernst Wolff
Table of contents.  (pages 7-10)Ernst Wolff
Preface.  (pages 11-14)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 1. Doing justice to responsibility: The primordial political nature of Levinas’ philosophy.  (pages 17-32)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 2. Ethnography, atheism, decolonisation.  (pages 33-58)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 3. The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point.  (pages 59-76)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 4. Humanism and anti-humanism in Levinas’ reflection on Jewish education.  (pages 77-104)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 5. Levinas’ post-anti-humanist humanism: Humanism of the other.  (pages 105-146)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 6. After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility.  (pages 147-174)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 7. Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics.  (pages 175-204)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 8. Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel.  (pages 205-220)Ernst Wolff
Chapter 9. Ricoeur’s contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world.  (pages 221-266)Ernst Wolff
Conclusion. For a “good enough” justice.  (pages 267-286)Ernst Wolff

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Ernst Wolff, Political Responsibility for a Globalised World. After Levinas’ Humanism: Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, 2011, 283 pp, € 33,80.Eva Buddeberg - 2012 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (5):709-710.
Preface.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 11-14.
Frontmatter.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 1-6.
Table of contents.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 7-10.
Chapter 7. Levinas and Max Weber on being called for politics.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 175-204.
Chapter 6. After Levinas: The risk of irresponsible responsibility.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 147-174.
Chapter 9. Ricoeur’s contribution to a notion of political responsibility for a globalised world.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 221-266.
Chapter 8. Towards a post-Levinasian understanding of responsibility: the Weberian contribution of Apel.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 205-220.
Chapter 3. The range of the political: Decolonisation as a case in point.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 59-76.
Conclusion. For a “good enough” justice.Ernst Wolff - 2011 - In Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism. Columbia University Press. pp. 267-286.

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