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Gestures of Ethical Life - Reading Hoelderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R849
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Gestures of Ethical Life - Reading Hoelderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger (Paperback, New): David Michael...

Gestures of Ethical Life - Reading Hoelderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger (Paperback, New)

David Michael Kleinberg Levin

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely immeasurable? In critical dialogue with texts by Plato, Hoelderlin, Rilke, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Levi, the author argues that the question of measure has become ever more urgent in the context of a modernity pressured by the conditions of a technological economy and a relativism that threatens to destroy a vital sense of moral responsibility and the commitment to justice that underlies the possibility of freedom. Conceived as a task for the "metaphysics" of memory, this book explores the normative problematic of measure, bringing its deeply buried redemptive promise to appearance in our gestures, uses and abuses of the hands, the dialectic of tact, and the manners of social existence.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Release date: August 2005
First published: August 2005
Authors: David Michael Kleinberg Levin
Dimensions: 230 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 484
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5088-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-8047-5088-2
Barcode: 9780804750882

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