LEADER 03908nam 22006495 450 001 9910734882603321 005 20251009083552.0 010 $a9783031355615 010 $a303135561X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-35561-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30651908 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30651908 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-35561-5 035 $a(CKB)27627158400041 035 $a(OCoLC)1390920525 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927627158400041 100 $a20230717d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCritical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness /$fby Sami Pihlström, Sari Kivistö 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (110 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 311 08$aPrint version: Pihlström, Sami Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness Cham : Springer,c2023 9783031355608 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Against the Empathetic Fallacy: On the Seriousness of the Moral Point of View -- Chapter 2 - Pain and the Other, and the Otherness of Pain -- Chapter 3 - Silence as Distance -- Chapter 4 - Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition -- Chapter 5 - The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion -- References -- Index. 330 $aThis book engages with such themes by means of five case studies. In this text, the authors argue that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat the other as genuinely other. They reveal reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and immersion into others? lives and experiences. They defend the significance of the distance between human beings and are to a certain degree writing against various cultural trends of our times in this book, criticizing the use of, e.g., the concept of empathy and related concepts in academic as well as more popular ethical contexts, across a range of issues from the nature of ethical duty to the philosophy of love. The chapters offer non-technical philosophy and cultural criticism through selected perspectives on the scale or continuum between closeness and distance. These case studies appeal to students and researchers; they explore different aspects of ethically significant relations between human beings. They show that we also have to be able to abstract from the concrete other in such relations, living in the normative and rational sphere of ethical duty. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aPhilosophy of Religion 606 $aLiterary Criticism 606 $aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Religion. 615 24$aLiterary Criticism. 615 24$aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 676 $a302.01 700 $aPihlstro?m$b Sami$0864347 701 $aKivisto?$b Sari$0673756 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910734882603321 996 $aCritical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness$93566873 997 $aUNINA