Michael L Morgan, Martin Jay

Levinas's Ethical Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michael L. Morgan is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He is author of Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought, Interim Judaism, and editor (with Steven Weitzman) of Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism (all published by IUP).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780253021106
• ISBN-10: 0253021103
• Artikelnr.: 43706191

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL MORGAN works an office job downtown, is a member of a social committee, and loves to cook. An ordinary man trying to live an extraordinary life, this is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Overview
1. Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Ethics and Politics
2. Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel
Part II. Philosophical Articulation
3. The Third Party: Transcendental Ethics and Realistic Politics
4. Ethics as Critique
5. Responsibility for Others and the Discourse of Rights
6. Liberalism and Democracy
Part III. Ethics, Politics, and Zionism
7. Teaching Prophetic Politics: Ethics and Politics in Levinas's Talmudic
Lessons
8. Zionism and the Justification of a Jewish State
9. Ethics, Politics, and Messianism
10. Levinas's Notorious Interview
Part IV. Defense
11. Levinas and His Critics
Conclusion
Notes
Index