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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling (Hardcover)
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling (Hardcover)
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling
explores the ethical and political implications of the debate
between Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas on the question of
Place. Throughout his philosophical career, Heidegger exhibited
concern about the uprooting of man that accompanies the modern
oblivion of Being and vividly described the consequences of modern
deracination as manifest in everything from everyday inauthenticity
to the growth of world technology. In response to this perceived
crisis, Heidegger propounds a series on ontological models that
illuminate the manner in which man is ensconced in the house of
Being. As it stands, Heidegger's homecoming project is rife with
political implications, as it led him to embrace a variety of
political stances that run the gamut from an emphasis on the "site"
of politics to volkisch nationalism to solitary quietism. No
thinker was more disturbed by Heidegger's homecoming project than
Levinas. In various writings, Levinas levels an incisive critique
of Heidegger's place-bound ontology. More specifically, Levinas
accuses Heideggerian ontology of being averse to transcendence and
conductive to tyranny, of failing to recognize the inherent dignity
of the human person, and of being a manifestation of latter-day
paganism. Additionally, Levinas also advances an alternative manner
of thinking about the home. For Levinas, the home is a place where
wanderers find refuge; and it rises to the fullness of its ethical
potentiality when used an instrument of hospitality to the other
person. By considering the Heidegger-Levinas debate, this book
illustrates the concern that animated their perspective projects
and the dangers of chauvinism and rootlessness inherent in the
attempt to construct a contemporary politics of place. In the end,
Heidegger and Levinas point toward the necessity of politics of
place that is both ontological and ethical, and which successfully
navigates between the twin extremes of narrow tribalism and
rootless cosmo
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