Ethics Of Alterity

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau,Christine Reynier
Publisher : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée (PULM)
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9782367811796

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Ethics of Alterity Confrontation in the 19th- 21st- Century British Arts by Jean-Michel Ganteau,Christine Reynier Pdf

Various art forms inscribe, program or perform the preference of relationship. In so doing, they put otherness high on their aesthetic agenda by caring about the cultural other, the other of gender, race, class or history. Such art forms from different periods promote a mode of sensibility to the other, whether the foreign or the invisible, or both, in their various manifestations. Sensibility to otherness is envisaged through the means of strident or humble art-forms and aesthetic choices, from the overtly experimental, to subdued adaptation. In confronting and welcoming the other art object, the other culture, or the othered citizen, art objects to the tyranny of the same and promotes such values as attentiveness, responsiveness and responsibility to forms of otherness, i.e. to the ways in which art cares about, or even takes care of the other. This implies the practice of an ethic of alterity (as distinct from the formulation of general rules) that is accountable for making the spectator or listener pay attention to social, economic and cultural invisibilities. Such an ethic of alterity joins hands with the political and may help chart the evolution of the objects and forms of engagement from the Victorian period to the present.

Author : S. Weller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230506060

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Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity by S. Weller Pdf

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.

Author : Orna Raviv
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429765353

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Ethics of Cinematic Experience by Orna Raviv Pdf

Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity. The book’s main thesis is that openness to otherness is already found in the basic structures of cinematic experience. Through a close examination of the ethical relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas and Gilles Deleuze to cinema studies, Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity pursues the question of how film can open the viewer to what is not her, and so bring her to encounter otherness in a way that is unique to cinematic experience. The book sees ethics as not just the subject, content or story of a film but part of its aesthetic structure. Accompanied by readings of films mainly from mainstream cinema, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the encounter with alterity through cinema. The book gives particular attention to how theoretical discussion of the cinematic close-up can lead to ethical insights into the status of both the human and the non-human in film, and thus lead to an understanding of the relationships the viewer makes with them. The book is a helpful resource for students and scholars interested in the relationship between philosophy, film and ethics, and is appropriate for students of philosophy and media and cultural studies.

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042004819

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Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity by Stefan Herbrechter Pdf

This book is of interest for any reader wishing to explore the interface between literature, and critical and cultural theory. It investigates the notions of alterity which underlie the work of Lawrence Durrell and postmodernist theory. Grass (Irmgard Elsner Hunt).

Author : Jörg Sternagel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781538178416

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Ethics of Alterity by Jörg Sternagel Pdf

This book puts into writing how alterity not only can be treated theoretically but also can be made accessible through writing as well as rendered relatable through reading. That is why it deals with exemplary interpersonal encounters in the world, in the arts, and in the media.

Author : Diane Perpich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804759427

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The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich Pdf

This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.

Author : James R. Mensch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791457524

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Ethics and Selfhood by James R. Mensch Pdf

Argues that a coherent theory of ethics requires an account of selfhood.

Author : Brian Treanor
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823226840

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Aspects of Alterity by Brian Treanor Pdf

""Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self." "After a thorough assessment and critique of otherness in Levinas's and Marcel's work, including a discussion of the relationship of ethical alterity to theological assumption, Aspects of Alterity traces the transmission and development of these two conceptions of otherness. Ultimately, Aspects of Alterity makes a case for a hermeneutic account of otherness."--Jacket.

Author : Jeffrey Thomas Nealon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822321459

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Alterity Politics by Jeffrey Thomas Nealon Pdf

An ethical reappraisal of postmodern and poststructuralist theory, including works by Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Zizek, and Butler.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231116519

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Alterity and Transcendence by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In today's world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinas's incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive--not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea of our worldly, subjective relationships to others.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1980-02-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400993439

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Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

Author : Charles Ng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1108669450

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The Relevance of Particularity in an Ethics of Alterity by Charles Ng Pdf

This thesis is an exploration of the role that the particularities (i.e., sex/gender, race/ethnicity, etc.) of the Other have in generating ethical responsibility. According to the meta-ethical claim put forth by Emmanuel Levinas's critique of Martin Heidegger's ontology, ethics is taken as the primordial issue of existence. The reason is that the co-related issues of meaning and identity are a result of the alterity that ensues from the exposure to the Other's face. This radical otherness, which resists our ability of comprehension, gestures to a sense of vulnerability that articulates the mortality of existence. The Other's death then becomes a possibility that calls us to responsibility. To this, Jacques Derrida provides suggestions to Levinas in regard to the issue of this radical alterity . Derrida's claim is that if we hold steadfast to the incomprehensibility of the Other, then such an entity is prevented from ever appearing within the horizon of understanding, and remains hidden as a relevant issue. Ethics is possible only insofar as the Other in some way appears, and thus Derrida proposes that ontological violence must minimally be committed for a relationship with alterity. This emphasis on the appearance of the Other means that there is some tangible quality that allows the contact with him/her. Différance will be helpful in understanding how we can approach these particularities according to their historical significance. It will then be argued that these particularities mediate our exposure to alterity, and are constitutive for ethics.

Author : Maylis Rospide,Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443881852

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The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity by Maylis Rospide,Sandrine Sorlin Pdf

This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called “genre literature” embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of genre codes. This volume shows unequivocally that this field does lend itself to such reflections. The contributors to this book highlight genre literature’s defamiliarising power, through which things can be “seen”. In meta-conceptualising the relationship between language and reality, it problematises and enhances this relation by making it more easily perceivable. The book shows that, rather than contenting itself with merely questioning the mechanism of estrangement, genre literature explores the confines of readability and the boundary between the readerly and the writerly. In their desire to represent the Other in all its complexity, writers are indeed confronted with an ethical and poetical aporia: how can what escapes humanity be described in human language? How can human language represent things that have no known referent in the reader’s world of experience? This collection of essays reveals that the most prototypical traits of genre literature lie in the encounter with otherness and the linguistic issues this raises.

Author : Kristin Lene Hole
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474409520

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Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics by Kristin Lene Hole Pdf

Develops an account of non-normative feminist cinematic ethics and a fresh methodological approach to film-philosophy.

Author : Nina L Molinaro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481279

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The Art of Time by Nina L Molinaro Pdf

Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generación X. This book studies Levinas, ethics, and these contemporary Spanish writers who trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative.