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9780739101414

From Communicative Action to the Face of the Other Levinas and Habermas on Language, Obligation, and Community

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    9780739101414

  • ISBN10:

    0739101412

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-26
  • Publisher: Lexington Books

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Summary

Although the continental philosophers Jurgen Habermas and Emmanuel Levinas are both inescapably important to an array of debates in contemporary moral theory, they are rarely assessed in relation to each other. Steven Hendley's study is based on the conviction that beneath the surface there is in fact a remarkable degree of convergence in the two philosophers' work that is usually overlooked. Hendley discovers and explains the complementarity of Levinas's conception of discourse in relation to the Other to Habermas's theory of communication as the basis for recognition of universal moral norms.

Author Biography

Steven Hendley is associate professor of philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Conversational Deference and Communicative Action
1(32)
Care, Justice, and the Face of the Other
33(20)
The Metaphysical Ground of Moral Authority
53(26)
The Liberties of the Ancients and Moderns
79(22)
The Moral Relevance of Judaism to Modernity
101(46)
The Epistemic Viability of the Appeal to the Face of the Other
147(26)
Bibliography 173(6)
Index 179(6)
About the Author 185

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