Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 023117151X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical loneliness and how those in power revise history to serve their own ends rather than the needs of the abandoned. In building her claims, Stauffer draws on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Améry, Eve Sedgwick, and Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as concrete cases of justice and injustice across the world.. Out of this discussion, difficult truths about the desire and potential for political forgiveness, transitional justice, and political reconciliation emerge. Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded
. She is the coeditor (with Bettina Bergo) of Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God" (Columbia, 2008) and has published widely on issues of responsibility within and beyond legality. Jill Stauffer is associate professor of philosophy and director of the concentration in peace, justice, and human rights at Haverford College
Her impressive blending of contemporary events and philosophical reflection reveals the wide scope of responsibility that implicates us in the repair of others' suffering in ways we are usually glad to ignore or resist. In Ethical Loneliness, Stauffer builds on this dialogic conception of the self over time to develop a communicative theory of justice as a 'reparative' mode of giving the past its due. Her bold claims for widely diffused reparative responsibilities are built on close discussions of how together we authoror destroyselves and worlds. (Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac University)Stauffer's book breaks through legalistic approaches to mass violence and oppression to uncover the conditions of the repair of lives and worlds in human i