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.
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 Bodys Recollection of Being (1985), The Opening of Vision (1988), The Listening Self (1989), The Philosophers Gaze (1999), Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlins Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005), Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Pontys Ecology and Levinass 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), Becketts Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (2015). Forthcoming: Heideggers Phenomenology of Perception, in 2 volumes.
