The Listening Self: Personal Growth, Social Change and the Closure of Metaphysics

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David Michael Levin

The Listening Self

Personal Growth, Social Change and the Closure of Metaphysics

David Michael Levin

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Routledge
01 October 2020

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Perception

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics

Originally published in 1989. In this interdisciplinary study, Dr Levin offers an account of personal growth and self-fulfilment based on the development of our capacity for listening. This book should be of interest to advanced students of critical theory, psychology, cultural studies, ethics, continental philosophy, ontology, metaphysics.

By: David Michael Levin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367194062
ISBN 10: 0367194066
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Metaphysics
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Opening Conversation. Introduction: The Gift and the Art 1. The Historical Call to Our Hearing 2. Zugehörigkeit: Our Primordial Attunement 3. Everydayness: The Ego's World 4. Skilful Listening 5. Communicative Praxis 6. Hearkening: Hearing Moved by Ontological Understanding

David M. Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA. His books include: The Body’s Recollection of Being (1985), The Opening of Vision (1988), The Listening Self (1989), The Philosopher’s Gaze (1999), Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin’s Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005), Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and Levinas’s Ethics (2008), Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov (2012), Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald (2013), Beckett’s Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (2015). Forthcoming: Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Perception, in 2 volumes.