Before the voice of reason : echoes of responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics / David Michael Kleinberg-Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary French thought.

SUNY series in contemporary French thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Ethics, Modern.

Responsibility.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Ethics.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before the Voice of Reason is a phenomenological critique of reason grounded in our experience of the voices that already address us and summon us prior to the emergence of the voice of reason. In part one, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin explores the voices of nature and draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to offer a new way of thinking about environmental responsibility. In part two, he looks at the voice of the moral law and the voices of other human beings, advances a more nuanced account of Levinas's distinction between "Saying" and "Said," and proposes a new argument for our responsibility to the other.

Contents:

A human voice

The project

The ethical root of the voice

The voice of reason

Reconciling voices : the political register

Conversation

Reading this book

The singing of the world : the claim of nature in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology

The remembrance of nature in the voice of the subject

Invocations of nature

The song of the winds

The song of the earth

The question of origins

Silence

Song

The voice of ecological attunement in a practice of caring for oneself

Prologue

The singing of language

Caring for oneself : the three phase-dimensions of the voice

Dying echoes : what must be remembered

Levinas : on the claim of the ethical

The saying and the said : giving time to the voice of the other

Unavoidable violence

Responsibility : claiming the voice

Inspiration

Heterology, heteronomy : the lyrical voice

The ethical dimensions of the voice

Ethical saying : the claim in dialogue

The pre-originary dimension of saying

Preliminary soundings

The pre-originary voice

Palimpsest : the trace of the other in the text of our flesh, or, the echo of the other in the trembling of the flesh

Enigmatic echoes : retrieving the trace.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-286) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477823

0791477827

9781435675094

1435675096

OCLC:

272405307