Gibbs Why Ethics?

Signs of Responsibilities
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibbs, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations and Notes on Citations xiii

Introduction Why Questions? 3

A. The Response in Responsibility 3

B. Signs 6

C. Commentaries l0

D. A Map 13

E. The Authors and Texts 23

Part I: Attending the Future 27

Chapter 1: Why Listen? 29

A. Attending the Teacher 31

B. Asymmetry 35

C. Receiving the World 37

D. The Face and Consciosness 40

E. Apology 44

Chapter 2 Why Speak? 47

A. The Saving 48

B. Bodily Signifying 50

C. Saying the Saying 58

D. Witness to Glory 61

Chapter 3: Why Write? 66

A. Writing Withdratual 67

B. Saying and Writing 74

C. The Trace and Crossing out 79

Chapter 4: Why Read? 86

A. The Hidden Thread 87

B. Closure of Philosophy 89

C. Re-citation 95

Chapter 5: Why Comment? 114

A. The Written Command 115

B. Reading and Separation 116

C. Commentaries 123

Part II: Presentjudgments 131

Chapter 6: Why Reason? 133

A. The Third and Justice 134

B. Mutuality and Justice 141

C. Mutuality and Asymmetry 145

Chapter 7: Why Mediate? 156

A. Communication and Love 157

B. Media for Communication 167

C. Mediating Consensus 171

Chapter 8: Why Judge? 178

A. Attribution 180

B. We and Ye 182

C. Universality and the Outside 187

D. Judgment Day 192

E. Unjust Judgment 200

Chapter 9: Why Law? 210

A. Justifying the World 211

B. Preserving Contradictions 214 '

C Judgment and the Oppressed 218

Part III: Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Method 225

Chapter 10: Why Verify? 227

A. Performative Method 229

B. Empiricisms: Absolute and Radical 234

C. Pragmatism and Pragmaticism 239

Chapter 11: Why Thirds? 246

A. The Third Person 247

B. Interpretation and Thirds 251

Chapter 12: Why Me? 258

A. Interpreters and Signs 259

B. Me and I 259

C. The Indeclinable Accusative (Me) 272

Chapter 13: Why Translate? 278

A. Reason and Jewish Sources 280

B. Jewish New Thinking 286

C. Contemporary Translation 290

D. A Necessary Trial 298

Part IV: Repenting History 305

Chapter 14: Why Repent? 307

A. Return 308

B. Great Is Repentance 310

C. Social Repentance 319

Chapter 15: Why Confess? 325

A. Confessing Orally 326

B. Performance of the "I" 329

C. Confession of Love 334

Chapter 16 Why Forgive? 338

A. Forgive or Forget 339

B. Changing the Past 341

C. Being Forgiven 345

Chapter 17: Why Remember? 354

A. Calendars 355

B. Historiography 362

C. Ruins and Remnants 372

Epilogue Postmodern Jewish Philosophy and Modernity 380

Pretext Index 385

Name Index 391

Subject Index 395

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Gibbs is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Author of Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas and coauthor of Reasoning after Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, he has written widely on questions of contemporary continental philosophy and its relations with Jewish thought.