Full Description
Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on 'the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the 'secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental facet of the human condition - demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through 'inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I
Introduction: Why Levinas?
Chapter 1. Cosmopolitan Anthropology: A Moral Vision of Human Being and Individual Love
Part II
Chapter 2. At Home in the Integument of the Body: Perceiving beyond Language and Culture
Chapter 3. Being Inspired to Practise an Acultural Ethical Relationality: Testifying
Chapter 4. Tracing the Density of Human Being and Loving the Invisible, Silent Other
Chapter 5. 'Jews Belong to Eternity': Attending Selflessly to the Dimension of Homeless Humankind
Conclusion: Another Phenomenology: Ego and Other Always and Already Conjoined in Creation
References
Index
