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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811912803321

Autore

Koivukoski Toivo

Titolo

The new barbarism and the modern West : recognizing an ethic of difference / / Toivo Koivukoski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9000-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Disciplina

172

Soggetti

Other (Philosophy)

Difference (Philosophy)

Civilization, Modern - 21st century - Philosophy

Technology and civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;



About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress.</span></span>