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Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas''s criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an authentic altruism through a phenomenology of both power and weakness, and of the paradoxes of the weakness of power and the power of weakness.

The metaethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas challenges Western egocentrism by describing the self as egoic yet nevertheless ethically called to transcend its own obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, and to respect and serve others. While power is powerful and weakness is weak, power can sabotage itself, and the weakness of others has power to command our attention and service. Levinas makes distinctions that offer psychology the basis for an alternative paradigm open to paradox. In The Paradox of Power and Weakness, George Kunz shows how the analyses of hagiography, cynicism, and limits on altruistic behavior by radical altruism contribute to this psychology of ethical responsibility for social sciences.

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/16/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791438909, 978-0791438909
      ISBN10: 0791438902

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas''s criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an authentic altruism through a phenomenology of both power and weakness, and of the paradoxes of the weakness of power and the power of weakness.

      The metaethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas challenges Western egocentrism by describing the self as egoic yet nevertheless ethically called to transcend its own obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, and to respect and serve others. While power is powerful and weakness is weak, power can sabotage itself, and the weakness of others has power to command our attention and service. Levinas makes distinctions that offer psychology the basis for an alternative paradigm open to paradox. In The Paradox of Power and Weakness, George Kunz shows how the analyses of hagiography, cynicism, and limits on altruistic behavior by radical altruism contribute to this psychology of ethical responsibility for social sciences.

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