Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's EthicsBefore 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. |
Other editions - View all
Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's ... David Michael Kleinberg-Levin No preview available - 2009 |
Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's ... David Michael Kleinberg-Levin No preview available - 2008 |
Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's ... David Michael Kleinberg-Levin No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
actually Adorno already animals argue attempt attunement bears become beginning body breathing bring chapter claim comes communication concerns condition consciousness constitutive continue course dimension discourse drawing earth echoes embodiment emergence Emerson English Essays ethical existence experience expression fact felt sense first flesh future gathering giving hear Heidegger hope human voice language Levinas Levinas’s listen living logos meaning memory Merleau-Ponty metaphysical mind moral law namely nature never nevertheless object once origin past perhaps phenomenology philosophical poet possible pre-originary Saying precisely present prior question rational reading realm recognize reflection relation remains remarks requires responsibility retrieve sense sensibility significance silence singing song sounds speak speech spirit suggest summons things thought tion tone trace trans translation truth understanding University Press voice of Reason voices of nature words writings York