Product Description: A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature, while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare, thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of its ongoing human-caused destruction...read more

Product Description: Arne Johan Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and cause serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing...read more

Product Description: Contains 13 essays exploring how closeness, the context where moral sensitivity is born, should be conveyed into an ethics. The essays include an interview with Emmanuel Levinas, as well as a combination of classical and original texts featuring discussions of Buber, Marcel, and Philosophy; love and the moral point of view; the dialectic of proximity and apartness; authenticity and responsibility in Heidegger's ontology; the I-thou and doctor-patient relationships; trust; and whether there can be a Levinasian macro-ethics...read more