| Description |
xlvi, 484 pages, Meridian 4 pages ; 23.5 cm |
| Series |
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Contents |
1. A gesture most tactful : Rilke's second Duino elegy -- 2. Measure in [actual symbol not reproducible] and [actual symbol not reproducible] : learning a gentle restraint -- 3. Freedom in right measure : Holderlin's anguished question -- 4. What measure now? : a survivor's reflections on the Holocaust -- 5. The invisible hands of capital and labor : using Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to understand alienation in Marx's theory of manual labor -- 6. Keeping up appearances : the dialectic of tact in Adorno -- 7. What is left intact : reading the hand in Benjamin's writings -- 8. Usage and dispensation : Heidegger's meditation on the hand -- 9. Two hands touching : chiasmatic gestures in Merleau-Ponty -- 10. Arrhythmia in the messianic Epokhe : opening the gate with Levinasian gestures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
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Ethical relativism.
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Ethics -- Methodology.
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Body language.
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Gesture.
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| LC no. |
2005010902 |
| ISBN |
0804750874 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804750882 paperback alkaline paper |
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