LEADER 03539nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910814462803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8669-9 010 $a1-4175-3136-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447468 035 $a(OCoLC)61367752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594783 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165218 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240051 035 $a(PQKB)11348376 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408456 035 $a(OCoLC)56066759 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6020 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594783 035 $a(DE-B1597)684134 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791486696 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447468 100 $a20020813d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthics and selfhood $ealterity and the phenomenology of obligation /$fJames Richard Mensch 210 $aAlbany, NY $cState University of New York Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5751-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-210) and indexes. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tSelfhood and Certainty -- $tEmpathy and Self-Presence -- $tThe Divided Self: A Phenomenological History of Ethics -- $tRescue and the Origin of Responsibility -- $tAn Ethics of Framing -- $tFreedom and Alterity -- $tAlterity and Society -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tName Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aAccording to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to die, genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must attain the critical distance required for ethical judgment without assuming a superhuman position. His description of how to attain this distance constitutes a genuinely new reading of the possibility of a phenomenological ethics, one that involves reassessing what it means to be a self. Selfhood, according to Mensch, involves both embodiment and the self-separation brought about by our encounter with others?the very others who provide us with the experiential context needed for moral judgment. Buttressing his position with documented accounts of those who hid Jews during the Holocaust, Mensch shows how the self-separation that occurs in empathy opens the space within which moral judgment can occur and obligation can find its expression. He includes a reading of the major moral philosophers?Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Arendt, Levinas?even as he develops a phenomenological account of the necessity of reading literature to understand the full extent of ethical responsibility. Mensch's work offers an original and provocative approach to a topic of fundamental importance. 606 $aEthics 606 $aPhenomenology 606 $aSelf (Philosophy) 606 $aOther (Philosophy) 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aPhenomenology. 615 0$aSelf (Philosophy) 615 0$aOther (Philosophy) 676 $a170 700 $aMensch$b James R$0553698 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814462803321 996 $aEthics and selfhood$94028092 997 $aUNINA