Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger

by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Book Overview

For Greek antiquity, the question of right or fitting measure constituted the very heart of both ethics and politics. But can the Good of the ethical life and the Justice of the political be reduced to measurement and calculation? If they are matters of measure, are they not also absolutely immeasurable? In critical dialogue with texts by Plato, H lderlin, Rilke, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Levi, the author argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750882
• ISBN13: 9780804750882
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"