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'Glibly dismissed by postmodernists as an illusion, the idea of disinterestedness has been patiently awaiting its philosophical saviour. Sean Gaston has now ridden triumphantly to the rescue, with a subtlety and originality of insight which positively leap from the page'. Terry Eagleton Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies both as part of a tradition, obscured since the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to be the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all interest. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the centre of thinking about ethics. The book argues that disinterest plays a significant role in the philosophy of both thinkers and in the dialogue between their work. In so doing it sheds new light on their respective contributions to moral and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces

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Author

Sean Gaston

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847140630

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Education, Western