Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness

by Sami Pihlström and Sari Kivistö

This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and immersion into others' lives and experiences. They defend the significance of the distance between human beings, criticizing exaggerated uses of, e.g., the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031355601
• ISBN13: 9783031355608
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"