{"product_id":"9781438461090","title":"Out of Control : Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas (Suny series in Contemporary Jewish Thought)","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 Out of Control, 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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eSituating these two thinkers in today's context, Out of Control 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","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48943901540587,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":190.44,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781438461090","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}