Levinas, Law, Politics

Herausgeber: Diamantides, Marinos

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, political theorists, philosophers and legal scholars critically engage with this idealization of Emmanuel Levinas ethics. The rebelliousness of Levinas thought is rediscovered here and used to challenge preconceptions of social, legal and individual responsibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415574372
• ISBN-10: 0415574374
• Artikelnr.: 28025126

Autorenporträt

Marinos Diamantides is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Politics not Left to Itself: Recognition and Forgiveness in Levinas
Philosophy. Levinas and Devotional Trauma. How Levinas Ethics is
Compromised by his Lack of Reflection on his Politics and How it can be
Salvaged. Transgressing Levinas. Levinas and the Limits of Political
Theory. Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other in
Levinas. Levinas' Silence. Here I Am: Illuminating and Delimiting
Responsibility. The Right to Die and an Ethics of Death. Politics and
Transcendence