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<p><p>the Essays That Jill Stauffer And Bettina Bergo Collect In This Volume Locate Multiple Affinities Between The Philosophies Of Nietzsche And Levinas. Both Philosophers Question The Nature Of Subjectivity And The Meaning Of Responsibility After The Death Of God. While Nietzsche Poses The Dilemmas Of A Self Without A Ground And Of Ethics At A Time Of Cultural Upheaval And Demystification, Levinas Wrestles With Subjectivity And The Sheer Possibility Of Ethics After The Shoah. Both Argue That Goodness Exists Independently Of Calculative Reason& Mdash;for Nietzsche, Goodness Arises In A Creative Act Moving Beyond Reaction And Ressentiment; Levinas Argues That Goodness Occurs In A Spontaneous Response To Another Person. In A World At Once Without God And Haunted By Multiple Divinities, Nietzsche And Levinas Reject Transcendental Foundations For Politics And Work Toward An Alternative Vision Encompassing A Positive Sense Of Creation, A Complex Fraternity Or Friendship, And Rival Notions Of Responsibility.<p>stauffer And Bergo Group Arguments Around The Following Debates, Which Are Far From Settled&#58; What Is The Reevaluation Of Ethics (and Life) That Nietzsche And Levinas Propose,

Author

Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231518536

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities