The new barbarism and the modern West : recognizing an ethic of difference / / Toivo Koivukoski
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Koivukoski Toivo
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| Titolo: |
The new barbarism and the modern West : recognizing an ethic of difference / / Toivo Koivukoski
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (151 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 172 |
| Soggetto topico: | Other (Philosophy) |
| Difference (Philosophy) | |
| Civilization, Modern - 21st century - Philosophy | |
| Technology and civilization | |
| 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> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The new barbarism and the modern West |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-9000-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811912803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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