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Koivukoski Toivo |
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The new barbarism and the modern West : recognizing an ethic of difference / / Toivo Koivukoski |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Other (Philosophy) |
Difference (Philosophy) |
Civilization, Modern - 21st century - Philosophy |
Technology and civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 Outer Barbarians; An ethical proposition; An ethic of difference; In defense of late modern liberalism; Barbarism in its cultural specificity; On the identity: barbarism = nature; Sentience of nature; On the Delphic Oracle; Profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries; Myth in modernity; Big Others and other Others; Applied barbarism; The barbarian as vanishing subject; Notes; 2 Beyond Barbarism, Love; Alterity or nothing!; An interruption and reason for love; A handbook of inward culture for outward barbarians; Love and duty; From familial love to the fear of others |
Negation and self-knowledgeOn love lost and getting it back; Eros as search for the other half; Divided love, the broken circle, and origins of world alienation; Love is relational; Love begins with difference; Notes; 3 Barbarism New and Old; The new savagery; An ontology of difference; Knowledge by proxy; The limits of idealism; Other than reason; Being is interdependency; Reading for perspective; Notes; 4 Barbarism and Civilization; On our barbarism toward nature; Is nature normal?; Nature in its absence; Civilization as conspiracy; A world without barbarians; On what is missing |
On the barbarism of reflectionOn exclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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