Before the Voice of Reason

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Before the Voice of Reason is written by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791477827 (ISBN 10) and 9780791477823 (ISBN 13).

Before the Voice of Reason is a phenomenological critique of reason grounded in our experience of the voices that already address us and summon us prior to the emergence of the voice of reason. In part one, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin explores the voices of nature and draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to offer a new way of thinking about environmental responsibility. In part two, he looks at the voice of the moral law and the voices of other human beings, advances a more nuanced account of Levinas's distinction between "Saying" and "Said," and proposes a new argument for our responsibility to the other.