Sociality and justice : toward social phenomenology / Maria Dimitrova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimitrova, Marii͡ (Professor in Social Philosophy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, [2016]

Summary:

Building on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this groundbreaking book puts the phenomenological paradigm into a new perspective. Overcoming the focus on self-reflection of the thinking subject and instead arguing for the importance of sociality as responsibility for the Other, this new approach is based on inter-subjectivity and introduces a social dimension in phenomenology. This also allows for a different interpretation of the notion of justice, which in this context sits in the space between the one, the other, and the third before settling into any relation to the law. In the vast area inhabited by more or less distant others, moral responsibility is implemented through the establishment and maintenance of just institutions.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Method or the next step: From Existential toward Social Phenomenology

Chapter One: Sociality: The I and the Other

1.1. Ontology and/or ethics. Is ontology fundamental?

1.2. How to think humanitas of homo humanus?

1.3. Subjectness

1.4. Time and death

а) Existential Time

b) Historical time

c) Eschatological Time

1.5. In the beginning was the Word ... with the Other

1.6. Heidegger and Levinas on the path to language

а) Martin Heidegger

b) Emmanuel Levinas

c) Heidegger and/or Levinas

Chapter Two: The Other and the Third One

2.1. The Third One

2.2. The Ethical and the Political. Justice and the State

2.3. Kant and Levinas on the Categorical Imperative

2.4. Paul Ricoeur on justice-virtue and institution. Revision from Levinas' perspective.

2.5. Jean-François Lyotard: prescription, description and norm.

Chapter Three: From the Command to the Norm

3.1. Replacing the prescription (the command, the order, the appeal) with the norm

3.2. The neo-liberal notion of justice

3.3 . The Communitarian notion of justice

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783838269450

3838269454