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978-1-4020-2827-4

The Inhuman Condition

Publication Date: 2004

ISBN: 978-1-4020-2827-4

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At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference,To clarify the meaning of the difference at stake here, we have tried to rephrase it in terms of the two major and mutually competing paradigms provided by the history of phenomenology only to find both of them equally unable to accommodate this difference without violence. The result? An account of difference that is neither ontological nor ethical, but 'mè-ontological', and that can help us understand some of the problems our societies have come to face (racism, sexism, multiculturalism, pluralism). And, in the wake of this, an unexpected defence of what is at stake in postmodernism and in the question it has refused to take lightly: who are we.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, logic, Metaphysics, Scepticism