Welcoming the Other

Student, Stranger, and Divine
Herausgeber: Laehn, N. Susan; Laehn, Thomas R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examines the efforts of philosophers, artists, caretakers, and-perhaps most importantly-teachers to establish a sense of community and interpersonal responsibility in the postmodern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631206
• ISBN-10: 1793631204
• Artikelnr.: 60406971

Autorenporträt

Edited by N. Susan Laehn and Thomas R. Laehn - Foreword by Wayne Parent - Afterword by James F. Lea - Contributions by Andrea D. Conque; David D. Corey; N. Susan Laehn; Thomas R. Laehn; John Randolph LeBlanc; W. King Mott; Peter A. Petrakis; William P. Sc

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Wayne Parent
Introduction: The Search for Community in the Postmodern Age
N. Susan Laehn
Thomas R. Laehn
Chapter 1: The Subversiveness of Desire: Descartes, Hobbes, and the
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Thought
Thomas R. Laehn
Chapter 2: Political Participation as Participation in the Transcendent
William P. Schulz, Jr.
Chapter 3: Toward a Politics of Care: Heidegger, Freedom, and the
Moral-Political Posture of Authentic Solicitude
Andrea D. Conque
Chapter 4: Subjectivity in Crisis: Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus on
Exile and Hospitality
N. Susan Laehn
Chapter 5: The Poets & Professor
Peter A. Petrakis
Chapter 6: The Role of Care Structures in Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter:
Surrogacy, Memory, and Membership in Port William, Kentucky
Drew Kennedy Thompson
Chapter 7: Terror, Nihilism, and Joy: Reconsidering Camus's Confrontation
with Political Violence
John Randolph LeBlanc
William Paul Simmons
Chapter 8: The Birth of Tragedy: Political Theory and the Classroom
W. King Mott
Chapter 9: Political Philosophy as Apprenticeship and Practice
David D. Corey
Afterword: Cecil, Nikos, and Me
James F. Lea