Concern for the Other

“. . . The University of Notre Dame Press is to be congratulated for publishing . . . [this book] . . . as well as The Ethical Demand . . . . Løgstrup's work remains mostly unknown among Anglophone moral philosophers. It is, however, filled with significant moral psychological and ethical insights. Løgstrup is especially incisive in noting and analyzing matters of moral phenomenology, and the overall thrust of his view has great interest as well. Moreover, . . . Løgstrup was himself engaged with mid-twentieth-century British moral philosophers like Nowell-Smith and Hare. Twenty-first-century Anglophone ethical philosophy would engage him to its profit.” — Notre Dame Philosophical Review

“Scholars associated with Aarhus University, where the Danish philosopher and theologian held his professorship, and from elsewhere in Europe discuss Løgstrup's (1905-81) ethics in national and international contexts. Their topics include how he treated moral thinkers, his relationship to British moral philosophy of the 20th century, and his religious account of the gift of life.” —Book News

“This essay collection featuring 11 contributors (including Hans Fink and Alasdair MacIntyre, who edited a new translation of The Ethical Demand in 1997) supplies a fittingly interrelated context: each author not only references Logstrup and his concepts but also addresses the critical responses he has engendered from one or more of the contributors here. The complete volume, then, works as a functional discussion rather than a series of discrete pieces.” —Library Journal