By Andrew Benjamin
In his final booklet, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin supplied a philosophical account of what he phrases anoriginal relationality, demonstrating how this idea could be noticeable to be at paintings during the historical past of philosophy. In Virtue in Being, he builds on that undertaking to argue for a brand new means of knowing the connection among ontology and ethics via insightful readings of texts by way of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida. Structuring the booklet round the subject matters of violence, evil, and pardon, Benjamin builds a powerful case for the connections he attracts among thinkers now not more often than not linked to one another.
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish idea at Monash college, Australia and individual Professor of Philosophy and arts at Kingston college, London. he's the writer of Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s different Possibility and the coeditor (with Dimitris Vardoulakis) of Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, either additionally released through SUNY Press.
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