| Contents |
Foreword / Algis Mickunas -- Introduction : Emmanuel Levinas and communication ethics : origins and traces -- Primordial gesture : the difficult freedom of communication ethics -- Footprints and echoes : Emmanuel Levinas -- The commencement of responsibility : the enigma of the face -- Proper names : saying, said, and the trace -- The impersonal and the sacred : igniting personal responsibility -- Imperfection : ethics disrupted by justice--The name of the rose -- Possession and burden : otherwise than Murdoch's information acquisition -- The ethical parvenu : unremitting accountability -- Heidegger's rectorate address : being as mistaken direction -- Adieu to Levinas : the unending rhetoric of the face. |
| Abstract |
"Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and responsibility to and for the Other that is an unending and an imperfect commitment. In Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics, Ronald C. Arnett underscores the profundity of Levinas's insights for communication ethics. Arnett outlines communication ethics as a primordial call of responsibility central to Levinas's writing and mission. Arnett analyzes communication ethics through a Levinasian lens with examination of social artifacts ranging from the Heidegger-Cassirer debate to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World story concerning illicit possession of information. Levinas's Rhetorical Demand offers an account of Levinas's project and the pragmatic implications of attending to a call of responsibility to and for the Other. This book yields a rich and nuanced understanding of Levinas's work, revealing the practical importance of his insights, and including a discussion of a constellation of related theorists and thinkers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
"This book provides an introduction to the importance of Levinas's work and an explication of the manner in which the practicality of his insights can assist ethical judgment within the human community"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-296) and index. |
| LCCN | 2016031744 |
| ISBN | 9780809335695 paperback |
| ISBN | 0809335697 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
