Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First
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Chapter 3: Making Sense of Levinas’s Silence

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1. Introduction

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2. Humanism of the Other

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3. Charity and Justice

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4. Making Sense of Levinas’s Silence

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5. A Pragmatic Interpretation of Levinas

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Chapter 4: The Duty to Care

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1. Introduction

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2. Clarifications and Caveats

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3. Levinas on Ethical Asymmetry

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4. Care Versus Justice: Weak and Strong Readings

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5. Marrying Levinas and Kant

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6. Forced Marriages: Questioning Levinas’s Compatibility with Kant

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7. Care, Fairness, and Dependency Critique

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8. The Duty to Care in Levinas

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Chapter 5: Levinas as Pragmatist

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1. Introduction

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2. Empirical, Transcendental, and Deconstructionist Readings of Levinas

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3. A Pragmatic Reading of Levinas

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4. Defending the Pragmatic Approach

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Conclusion: Levinas and Therapeutic Philosophy: Or, How to Throw Away a Ladder

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Bibliography

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Index

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