03395nam 2200637 450 991081191280332120200520144314.00-7391-9000-8(CKB)3710000000222376(EBL)1767184(SSID)ssj0001289412(PQKBManifestationID)12542468(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289412(PQKBWorkID)11318096(PQKB)11205001(MiAaPQ)EBC1767184(Au-PeEL)EBL1767184(CaPaEBR)ebr10909623(CaONFJC)MIL637704(OCoLC)887802725(EXLCZ)99371000000022237620140830h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe new barbarism and the modern West recognizing an ethic of difference /Toivo KoivukoskiLanham, Maryland ;London, England :Lexington Books,2014.©20141 online resource (151 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-06453-9 0-7391-8999-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 othersNegation 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 missingOn the barbarism of reflectionOn exclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author<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>Other (Philosophy)Difference (Philosophy)Civilization, Modern21st centuryPhilosophyTechnology and civilizationOther (Philosophy)Difference (Philosophy)Civilization, ModernPhilosophy.Technology and civilization.172Koivukoski Toivo1643055MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811912803321The new barbarism and the modern West3988072UNINA