All Our Relations
Levinas, the Posthuman, and the More-Than-Human
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Calarco (Department of Philosophy CSU Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 71-85 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2019.1620455 |
| OpenAlex | W2950852649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
The aim of this essay is to examine the status and promise of Emmanuel Levinas's humanism for a posthuman and more-than-human age. I suggest that, even though Levinas's approach partially reproduces classical forms of anthropocentrism, a careful reading of his writings on humanism uncovers surprising resources for thinking about ethics and relationality beyond human beings. I close by suggesting that one of Levinas's early writings on ritual anticipates the need to adopt practices that reconfigure our habitual relations to the world as a whole, both human and more-than-human. As such, I argue that his work can be mined for important insights for reconstituting a genuinely post-anthropocentric form of life
Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Non-human · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Reading (process · Sociology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |