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Critical distanceethical and literary engagements with detachment, isolation, and otherness /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Critical distanceby Sami Pihlstrom, Sari Kivisto.
Reminder of title:	ethical and literary engagements with detachment, isolation, and otherness /
Author:	Pihlstrom, Sami.
other author:	Kivisto, Sari.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023.
Description:	viii, 105 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Interpersonal relationsPhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35561-5
ISBN:	9783031355615$q(electronic bk.)

Critical distanceethical and literary engagements with detachment, isolation, and otherness /
Pihlstrom, Sami.

Critical distanceethical and literary engagements with detachment, isolation, and otherness /[electronic resource] :by Sami Pihlstrom, Sari Kivisto. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - viii, 105 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - SpringerBriefs in philosophy,2211-4556. - SpringerBriefs in philosophy..

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Against the Empathetic Fallacy: On the Seriousness of the Moral Point of View -- Chapter 2 - Pain and the Other, and the Otherness of Pain -- Chapter 3 - Silence as Distance -- Chapter 4 - Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition -- Chapter 5 - The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This book engages with such themes by means of five case studies. In this text, the authors argue that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat the other as genuinely other. They reveal reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and immersion into others' lives and experiences. They defend the significance of the distance between human beings and are to a certain degree writing against various cultural trends of our times in this book, criticizing the use of, e.g., the concept of empathy and related concepts in academic as well as more popular ethical contexts, across a range of issues from the nature of ethical duty to the philosophy of love. The chapters offer non-technical philosophy and cultural criticism through selected perspectives on the scale or continuum between closeness and distance. These case studies appeal to students and researchers; they explore different aspects of ethically significant relations between human beings. They show that we also have to be able to abstract from the concrete other in such relations, living in the normative and rational sphere of ethical duty.

ISBN: 9783031355615$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-35561-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

958595
Interpersonal relations
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: HM1106

Dewey Class. No.: 302.01

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