Sociality and Justice: Toward Social Phenomenology

Building on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this groundbreaking book puts the phenomenological paradigm into a new perspective. Overcoming the focus on self-reflection of the thinking subject and instead arguing for the importance of sociality as responsibility for the Other, this new approach is based on inter-subjectivity and introduces a social dimension in phenomenology. This also allows for a different interpretation of the notion of justice, which in this context sits in the space between the one, the other, and the third before settling into any relation to the law. In the vast area inhabited by more or less distant others, moral responsibility is implemented through the establishment and maintenance of just institutions

Machine generated contents note:Method or the next step: From Existential toward Social Phenomenology --ch. OneSociality: The I and the Other --1.1.Ontology and/or ethics. Is ontology fundamental? --1.2.How to think humanitas of homo humanus? --1.3.Subjectness --1.4.Time and death --a).Existential Time --b).Historical time --c).Eschatological Time --1.5.In the beginning was the Word with the Other --1.6.Heidegger and Levinas on the path to language --a).Martin Heidegger --b).Emmanuel Levinas --c).Heidegger and/or Levinas --ch. TwoOther and the Third One --2.1.Third One --2.2.Ethical and the Political. Justice and the State --2.3.Kant and Levinas on the Categorical Imperative --2.4.Paul Ricoeur on justice -- virtue and institution. Revision from Levinas' perspective --2.5.Jean-Francois Lyotard: prescription, description and norm --ch. ThreeFrom the Command to the Norm --3.1.Replacing the prescription (the command, the order, the appeal) with the norm --3.2.neo-liberal notion of justice --3.2.Communitarian notion of justice.