Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Against the Empathetic Fallacy: On the Seriousness of the Moral Point of View
	Earlier Criticisms of Empathy
	Moral “Experts” and Moral “Selfies”
	Moral Puzzlement
	The Problems of Sympathetic Identification
	Empathy or Duty?
	Suffering and Antitheodicy
	Human and Inhuman Detachment
	The Judging Self
3 Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition
	The Emotional Versus the Normative: Facing the Abstract Other
	Literary Investigations of Our Tragic Condition
	Theodicies and Antitheodicies (Again)
	The Instrumentalization of Suffering
	Appropriate Distance in Sickness and Quarantine
	When Safe Distance Is Forgotten
	Banal Evil
4 The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love
	Bestowal, Appraisal, and Recognition
	Tragic Female Characters and Being at Home in Carthage
	The Limits of Meaning and the Contingency of Necessity
	Transcendental Shareability and Melancholy
	The Love of the Good
	Love as a Limit Phenomenon
	Recognition, Acknowledgment, and Naivety
5 Conclusion
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