{"product_id":"out-of-control-confrontations-between-spinoza-and-levinas-paperback","title":"Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard A. Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza's answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas's is goodness: science versus ethics. In \u003ci\u003eOut of Control\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontations between them in ethics, politics, science, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpinoza is the control, the inexorable defensive logic of administrative rationality, where freedom is equated to necessity-a seventeenth-century glimpse of Orwellian doublespeak and Big Brother. Levinas is the way out: transcendence not of God, being, and logic but of the other person experienced as moral obligation. To alleviate the suffering of others-nothing is more important! Spinoza wagers everything on mathematical truth, discarding the rest as ignorance and illusion; for Levinas, nothing surpasses the priorities of morality and justice, to create a world in which humans can be human and not numbers or consumers, drudges or robots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituating these two thinkers in today's context, \u003ci\u003eOut of Control\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the fear of dehumanization in a world flattened by the alliance of positivism and plutocracy. It offers a nonideological ethical alternative, a way out and up, in the nobility of one human being helping another, and the solidarity that moves from morality to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard A. Cohen \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eRicoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with James L. Marsh) and \u003ci\u003eFace to Face with Levinas\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 370\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737146560608,"sku":"9781438461106","price":82.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/VI8nHk0iz69781438461106.webp?v=1777867130","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/out-of-control-confrontations-between-spinoza-and-levinas-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}