{"product_id":"9783031355608","title":"Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy) (1st ed. 2023. 2023. viii, 105 S. VIII, 105 p. 1 illus. 235 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide 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, criticizing exaggerated uses 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters offer non-technical philosophical and cultural criticism through selected perspectives on the continuum between closeness and distance, exploring various aspects of ethically significant relations between human beings. This book thus appeals to a wide audience, especially researchers and students in different fields of the humanities, including philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies, by combining philosophical and literary methodologies in a humanistic examination of the value of distance. The book also argues that we have to be able to abstract from the concrete other in ethical relations, living in the normative and rational sphere of duty instead of emotional immersion.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.- 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSami Pihlström is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki. He is currently the president of the Philosophical Society of Finland and of the William James Society. He is the author of more than twenty books (on, e.g., pragmatism, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophical anthropology, and transcendental philosophy). His recent monographs include \u003ci\u003eWhy Solipsism Matters \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2020), \u003ci\u003ePragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other\u003c\/i\u003e (Helsinki UP, 2020), \u003ci\u003ePragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age: Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism \u003c\/i\u003e(Cambridge UP, 2021), \u003ci\u003eToward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e (SUNY Press, 2022), \u003ci\u003eHumanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (Lexington, 2023), and \u003ci\u003eRealism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer, 2023). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSari Kivistö is Professor of Comparative Literature and the director of the doctoral program in literary studies at Tampere University. Her research interests include, for example, epistemic vices, suffering and antitheodicy in literature, and Neo-Latin literature. Kivistö's books include \u003ci\u003eNeo-Latin Verse Satire, ca. 1500-1800. An Ethical Approach\u003c\/i\u003e (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2022), \u003ci\u003eLucubrationes Neolatinae. Readings of Neo-Latin Dissertations and Satires\u003c\/i\u003e (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2018), \u003ci\u003eKantian Antitheodicy. Philosophical and Literary Varieties\u003c\/i\u003e (with S. Pihlström, Palgrave, 2016), \u003ci\u003eDeath in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with O. Hakola, Cambridge Scholars, 2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Vices of Learning. Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eMedical Analogy in Latin Satire\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave, 2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth authors are invited members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; SPRING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848215015659,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":109.85,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031355608-1.jpg?v=1781717449","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031355608","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}