The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics

Product Description

Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.



Review

“Benso’s elegant study takes its starting point in Heidegger and Levinas and shows a good understanding of their thought, but her goal is to develop what she calls ‘an ethics of things.’ She employs Levinasian resources to develop an ethics of things and to use Levinas against Levinas in a way that is novel and provocative.” ― Robert Bernasconi, author of Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing

“This book is perfectly situated to deal with questions raised by environmental concerns as well as ethical, social, and political questions about human relationships and community. It is a wonderful contribution to on-going debates about an ethics and theory of subjectivity and of the other which is adequate to the times we live in and which can address contemporary problems of social violence, alienation, and environmental devastation.” ― Tamsin E. Lorraine, author of Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy

About the Author

Silvia Benso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica.