Otherness and Ethics: An Ethical Discourse of Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi)

By Shinhyung Seong

Book Overview

Otherness and Ethics demonstrates how Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) develop their ideas of otherness and ethics. Most of all, the meaning of inter-subjectivity is examined in order to employ this point as this book delves into the phenomenon of face in Levinas and the significance of ren (human-relatedness) in Confucius (Kongzi). In addition, this book searches their different notions of humanity and relatedness to have a creative discourse for developing the concept of ethics of otherness as it concentrates on the formulation of ethical narratives in Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi). Thus, this book can open a possibility of building of ethics of otherness through reviewing ethical foundations of Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) and discussing the meaning of otherness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532647638
• ISBN13: 9781532647635
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"