David Michael Kleinberg-Levin Gestures of Ethical Life (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Gestures of Ethical LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After HeideggerISBN-10: 0804750874EAN: 9780804750875ISBN: 9780804750875Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/05/2005Description: 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, Hölderlin, 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. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 826gAuthor: David Michael Kleinberg-LevinGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Meridian: Crossing AestheticsRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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