Before the Voice of Reason : Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics.

Intro -- Before the Voice of Reason -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Human Voice -- 2. The Project -- 3. The Ethical Root of the Voice -- 4. The Voice of Reason -- 5. Reconciling Voices: The Political Register -- 6. Conversation -- 7. Reading This Book -- Part 1. The Singing of the World: The Claim of Nature in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology -- 1. The Remembrance of Nature in the Voice of the Subject -- 1. Invocations of Nature -- 2. The Song of the Winds -- 3. The Song of the Earth -- 2. The Question of Origins -- 1. Silence -- 2. Song -- 3. The Voice of Ecological Attunement in a Practice of Caring for Oneself -- 1. Prologue -- 2. The Singing of Language -- 3. Caring for Oneself:The Three Phase-Dimensions of the Voice -- 4. Dying Echoes: What Must Be Remembered -- Part II. Levinas: On the Claim of the Ethical -- 4. The Saying and the Said:Giving Time to the Voice of the Other -- 1. Unavoidable Violence -- 2. Responsibility: Claiming the Voice -- 3. Inspiration -- 4. Heterology, Heteronomy: The Lyrical Voice -- 5. The Ethical Dimensions of the Voice -- 6. Ethical Saying: The Claim in Dialogue -- 5. The Pre-Originary Dimension of Saying -- 1. Preliminary Soundings -- 2. The Voice of Reason -- 3. The Pre-Originary Voice -- 4. Palimpsest: The Trace of the Other in the Text of Our Flesh,or, The Echo of the Other in the Trembling of the Flesh -- 5. Enigmatic Echoes: Retrieving the Trace -- Epilogue -- My Voices -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

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