The Face of Things PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism

The Face of Things PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & CriticismEngages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things. Here's a book that dispels the traditional tendency of philosophy to ignore the alterity of things. Drawing on two major figures in the continental tradition Levinas and Heidegger author Silvia Benso engages them on the provocative issue of an ethics of things. She argues that Levinas advances an ethics without things, and Heidegger proffers a conception of things without

when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field

an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics

she learns more about herself

the contributors also discuss lesser known works

The result is the first truly comprehensive critical look at the making of human rights norms and standards and

including specialised breeding programmes and genetic engineering

Her visionary philosophy motivates transformative modes of engaging cultural others

the man tries to convince the Sultan to spare his life

and society in order to understand both benefits and costs

the author provides a detailed account of Simnānī's life and times

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey

into its own opposite-as it is expressed in German Romanticism