{"product_id":"out-of-control-15","title":"Out of Control","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza's answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas's is goodness: science versus ethics. In \u003ci\u003eOut of Control\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontations between them in ethics, politics, science, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpinoza is the control, the inexorable defensive logic of administrative rationality, where freedom is equated to necessity-a seventeenth-century glimpse of Orwellian doublespeak and Big Brother. Levinas is the way out: transcendence not of God, being, and logic but of the other person experienced as moral obligation. To alleviate the suffering of others-nothing is more important! Spinoza wagers everything on mathematical truth, discarding the rest as ignorance and illusion; for Levinas, nothing surpasses the priorities of morality and justice, to create a world in which humans can be human and not numbers or consumers, drudges or robots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituating these two thinkers in today's context, \u003ci\u003eOut of Control\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the fear of dehumanization in a world flattened by the alliance of positivism and plutocracy. It offers a nonideological ethical alternative, a way out and up, in the nobility of one human being helping another, and the solidarity that moves from morality to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410600513880,"sku":"9781438461090","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438461090.jpg?v=1777897838","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/out-of-control-15","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}