Howard Caygill

Levinas and the Political

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Produktbeschreibung

Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political. From Levinas' early writings in the face of National Socialism to controversial political statements on Israeli and French politics, Caygill analyses themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics, embodiment, the face and alterity. He also examines Levinas' engagement with his contemporaries Heidegger and Bataille, and the implications of his rethinking of the political for an understanding of the Holocaust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415112482
• ISBN-10: 0415112486
• Artikelnr.: 22311051

Autorenporträt

Howard Caygill is in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College.

Inhaltsangabe

Key to Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Presentiments of National
Socialism Political Horror Liberty, Equality and Fraternity Phenomenology
and Freedom Philosophy and National Socialism Guide for the Persecuted
Chapter Two: The Post-War Political The Consequences of National
SocialismThe Haunted Peace The Critique of Political Ontology: Towards
Totality and Infinity 'Being Jewish'/'Being Western': Towards Otherwise
than Being Israel: Between Totality and the Ethical Chapter Three: Between
War and Peace: the Burdens of Totality and Infinity Totality and War From
Lucidity to Vigilance: The Questions of Totality and Infinity War in Peace
War and the Other Peace and the 'Work of Justice' Chapter Four: Prophetic
Politics or 'Othewise than Freedom' Difficult Freedom Otherwise than Being
I: The Ontological Supplement Otherwise than Being II: Proximity and
Substitution Illeity and Phophetic Politics The Rights of Man and Citizen
Chapter Five: Israel in Universal and Holy History Levinas's Right to
Silence The Passion of Israel Israel and Messianic Politics Israel and
Jewish Identity Threatening Others Assimilation