Responsibility, Indifference and Global Poverty A Levinasian Perspective

This study attempts to understand our continued good conscience amid the suffering of the world's poorest. In doing so, it draws on Emmanuel Levinas' ethical philosophy to demonstrate how writings in the principal debate about the extent of our responsibility for others at the global level, the so-called 'cosmopolitan-communitarian debate', contain a number of elements that enable and perpetuate our indifference to the world's poorest.Jordaan, Eduard is the author of 'Responsibility, Indifference and Global Poverty A Levinasian Perspective', published 2006 under ISBN 9789042918221 and ISBN 9042918225.