Before the voice of reason
Subtitle: echoes of responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics
By: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary French thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780791475492
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961; Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics; Ecology -- Philosophy; Ethics, Modern; Responsibility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: A human voice; title: The project; title: The ethical root of the voice; title: The voice of reason; title: Reconciling voices : the political register; title: Conversation; title: Reading this book; title: The singing of the world : the claim of nature in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology; title: The remembrance of nature in the voice of the subject; title: Invocations of nature; title: The song of the winds; title: The song of the earth; title: The question of origins; title: Silence; title: Song; title: The voice of ecological attunement in a practice of caring for oneself; title: Prologue; title: The singing of language; title: Caring for oneself : the three phase-dimensions of the voice; title: Dying echoes : what must be remembered; title: Levinas : on the claim of the ethical; title: The saying and the said : giving time to the voice of the other; title: Unavoidable violence; title: Responsibility : claiming the voice; title: Inspiration; title: Heterology, heteronomy : the lyrical voice; title: The ethical dimensions of the voice; title: Ethical saying : the claim in dialogue; title: The pre-originary dimension of saying; title: Preliminary soundings; title: The voice of reason; title: The pre-originary voice; title: Palimpsest : the trace of the other in the text of our flesh, or, the echo of the other in the trembling of the flesh; title: Enigmatic echoes : retrieving the trace.