Existential Ethics and the Philosophy of Historiography
What does it mean to bear responsibility for absent others when thinking, reading, and writing about them? The hermeneutic activities of reading and writing often involve ethical relations to absent people who are referred to and spoken about in our present lives. As the human world develops histori...
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| description | What does it mean to bear responsibility for absent others when thinking, reading, and writing about them? The hermeneutic activities of reading and writing often involve ethical relations to absent people who are referred to and spoken about in our present lives. As the human world develops historically through orality and literacy, literary culture is one way in which connections to past and future generations can be deepened. Scrutinizing responsibility in various exhortations to historicize, this book delves into the archaeological idea of prehistory, the anthropology of literacy, the ethics of memory and testimony, the hermeneutics and aesthetics of historical narration, Holocaust histories and the afterlife of evil deeds, the distinction between responsibility and guilt, and the morality of the human sciences. The aim is to clarify a personal and transgenerational responsibility toward absent others. The perspective is an existential ethics inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’s "ethics as first philosophy." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1700582025-12-11T05:03:12Z Existential Ethics and the Philosophy of Historiography Elgabsi, Natan existential ethics historiography aesthetics hermeneutics evil deeds prehistoric time preliterate mind reification anthropological violence transgenerational dimensions thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy What does it mean to bear responsibility for absent others when thinking, reading, and writing about them? The hermeneutic activities of reading and writing often involve ethical relations to absent people who are referred to and spoken about in our present lives. As the human world develops historically through orality and literacy, literary culture is one way in which connections to past and future generations can be deepened. Scrutinizing responsibility in various exhortations to historicize, this book delves into the archaeological idea of prehistory, the anthropology of literacy, the ethics of memory and testimony, the hermeneutics and aesthetics of historical narration, Holocaust histories and the afterlife of evil deeds, the distinction between responsibility and guilt, and the morality of the human sciences. The aim is to clarify a personal and transgenerational responsibility toward absent others. The perspective is an existential ethics inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’s "ethics as first philosophy." 2025-12-11T05:03:10Z 2025-12-11T05:03:10Z 2025-12-10T13:44:19Z 2025 book ONIX_20251210T144036_9781040840382_15 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109061 9781040840382 9781003695141 9789048567737 9781040842980 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170058 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109061/1/9781040840382.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003695141 10.4324/9781003695141 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040840382 9781003695141 9789048567737 9781040842980 Routledge 248 Oxford open access |
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